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Mason-Tyler's brother keeps taking the blame for him. What would likely happen if it carried on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, blame · What happens: keep, take, happen, carry on · To what, where: blame

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 509 «The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: Mason-Tyler's brother keeps taking the blame for him.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mason	Mason	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Tyler	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Mason	punct
3	Tyler	Tyler	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 brother	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Tyler	case
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keeps	nsubj
6	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 keeps	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 blame	det
9	blame	blame	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 taking	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 taking	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Mason Tyler's brother						tree rules
2	take	gerund	Mason Tyler's brother not said here	the blame				for brother	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent blame=Theme for he=Beneficiary

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: What would likely happen if it carried on?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
3	likely	likely	ADV	_	4 happen	advmod
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 carried	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 carried	nsubj
7	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 carried	compound:prt
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	carry on a condition, not said to happen	past	blame						vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Mason-Tyler would keep feeling bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mason	Mason	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 keep	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Mason	punct
3	Tyler	Tyler	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mason	flat
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	aux
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	feeling	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	Mason					bad property	tree rules
2	feel	gerund	Mason not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Mason-Tyler would feel great forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mason	Mason	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 feel	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Mason	punct
3	Tyler	Tyler	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mason	flat
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 feel	aux
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feel	xcomp
7	forever	forever	ADV	_	5 feel	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	would	Mason					forever, great property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Their parents would always know the truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 parents	nmod:poss
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 know	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 truth	det
7	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 know	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	would	Their parents	the truth				always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer truth=Stimulus

Option 4

The brother would get a prize

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brother	det
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 prize	det
6	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the brother	a prize					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prize=Stimulus

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