Test 8 · ★ · Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away

What would most likely happen if Oskar stopped messaging his cousins in Poland for years?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oskar · What happens: happen, stop, message · To what, where: cousins, Poland

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 510 «Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away» 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	5 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 happen	advmod
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 stopped	mark
7	Oskar	Oskar	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 stopped	nsubj
8	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	advcl
9	messaging	message	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 stopped	xcomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 cousins	nmod:poss
11	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 messaging	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 Poland	case
13	Poland	Poland	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 messaging	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 years	case
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 messaging	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop a condition, not said to happen	past	Oskar					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	message	gerund	Oskar not said here	Oskar's cousins	Poland	year		tree rules

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

They'd become closer than ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 become	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 become	xcomp
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 ever	case
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 closer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	They					close property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They might drift apart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drift	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 drift	aux
3	drift	drift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	apart	apart	ADV	_	3 drift	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drift apart	might	They					apart property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They'd forget Polish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forget	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 forget	aux
3	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	Polish	polish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 forget	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	would	They					polish property	tree rules

Option 4

Nothing would ever change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 change	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 change	advmod
4	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing				ever		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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