Test 9 · The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad

What would most likely happen if Nanna bought Ava-Rose two ice creams every arvo for a year?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nanna · What happens: happen, buy · To what, where: arvo, Ava

This is test 9 of lesson 512 «The granny who spoils you and the strict grandad» 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 bought	mark
7	Nanna	Nanna	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 bought	nsubj
8	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	advcl
9	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 bought	obj
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Rose	punct
11	Rose	Rose	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Ava	flat
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 creams	nummod
13	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 creams	compound
14	creams	cream	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 Ava	nmod
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 arvo	det
16	arvo	arvo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bought	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 year	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 year	det
19	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 arvo	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 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	buy a condition, not said to happen	past	Nanna	every arvo	Ava two ice creams				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent ava=Beneficiary arvo=Theme

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

Nothing at all would happen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 happen	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would	Nothing						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She'd grow twice as fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grow	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 grow	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	She					fast, twice property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Her teeth could be harmed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 teeth	nmod:poss
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 harmed	nsubj:pass
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 harmed	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 harmed	aux:pass
5	harmed	harm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	harm	could · passive		Her teeth					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 4

Her teeth would get stronger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 teeth	nmod:poss
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Her teeth					strong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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