Test 3 · ★ · Foster care

What would most likely happen if Jan had laughed at the bin bags?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jan · What happens: happen, laugh · To what, where: bin bags

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 521 «Foster care» 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	_	9 laughed	mark
7	Jan	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 laughed	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 laughed	aux
9	laughed	laugh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 happen	advcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 bags	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bags	det
12	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bags	compound
13	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 laughed	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	laugh a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Jan			the bin bags			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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

Nothing, bags don't matter to kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 bags	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 matter	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 matter	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 matter	advmod
6	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 kids	case
8	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 matter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	Nothing bags					to kids	vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to kid=Experiencer

Option 2

Tayla would laugh and feel at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tayla	Tayla	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 laugh	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 laugh	aux
3	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 feel	cc
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 laugh	conj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 home	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	would	Tayla						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feel	infinitive	Tayla not said here			home			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location

Option 3

Tayla would trust her straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tayla	Tayla	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 trust	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 trust	aux
3	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trust	obj
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 away	advmod
6	away	away	ADV	_	3 trust	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	would	Tayla	her = she				away property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tayla would find it even harder to trust her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tayla	Tayla	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 find	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 find	obj
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 harder	advmod
6	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 find	xcomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 trust	mark
8	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 harder	xcomp
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 trust	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	Tayla	it				hard property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	trust	to-infinitive		Tayla					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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