Test 4 · ★ · The parent who left, and a new partner
What would most likely happen if Craig kept making new rules without Mum?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Craig · What happens: happen, keep, make · To what, where: new rules
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 517 «The parent who left, and a new partner» 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 kept | mark |
| 7 | Craig | Craig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 kept | nsubj |
| 8 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happen | advcl |
| 9 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 kept | xcomp |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rules | amod |
| 11 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 making | obj |
| 12 | without | without | ADP | _ | 13 Mum | case |
| 13 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 making | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | 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 | keep a condition, not said to happen | past | Craig | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | gerund | Craig not said here | new rules | without Mum | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rule=Product |
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
Mum would hand the whole house to Craig
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hand | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hand | aux |
| 3 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 house | amod |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hand | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Craig | case |
| 8 | Craig | Craig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 house | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | would | Mum | the whole house | Craig | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme to craig=Destination |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
More rows, and Zane would feel even worse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 rows | amod |
| 2 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 feel | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 feel | cc |
| 5 | Zane | Zane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 feel | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 feel | aux |
| 7 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 rows | acl:relcl |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 worse | advmod |
| 9 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 feel | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | would | Zane | More rows not said here | bad property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Theme |
Option 3
Nothing, new partners always make the rules
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 make | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 partners | punct |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 partners | amod |
| 4 | partners | partner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Nothing | conj |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 make | advmod |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rules | det |
| 8 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 make | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Nothing | the rules | always property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material rule=Product |
Option 4
Zane would soon love the rules and Craig
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zane | Zane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 love | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 love | aux |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 love | advmod |
| 4 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rules | det |
| 6 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 love | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Craig | cc |
| 8 | Craig | Craig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 love | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | would | Zane | the rules | soon property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rule=Stimulus |
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