Test 4 · Manners and kindness

What would probably happen if nobody in a class ever took turns to speak?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nobody · What happens: happen, take, speak · To what, where: turns · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 of lesson 51 «Manners and kindness» 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

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	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 happen	advmod
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 took	mark
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 took	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 class	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 class	det
9	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nobody	nmod
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 took	advmod
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
12	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 took	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 speak	mark
14	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 took	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				probably property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take a condition, not said to happen	past	nobody	turns	ever		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent turn=Theme clause=Attribute
3	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	nobody not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The teacher would have nothing left to do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 have	obj
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 nothing	acl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 left	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	would	the teacher	nothing	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	leave	participle			tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Everyone would talk at once and nobody would be heard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 talk	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 talk	aux
3	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 talk	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 heard	cc
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 heard	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 heard	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 heard	aux:pass
10	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 talk	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	would	Everyone						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	would · passive		nobody					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus

Option 3

The quiet children would be heard much more often than before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 children	amod
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heard	nsubj:pass
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 heard	aux:pass
6	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 often	advmod
9	often	often	ADV	_	6 heard	advmod
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 before	case
11	before	before	ADV	_	9 often	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	would · passive		the quiet children				often property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus

Option 4

The lesson would go faster and better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lesson	det
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 go	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 better	cc
7	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 faster	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	the lesson					fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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