Test 2 · Adoption

What would most likely happen if Callum's parents had told him when he was tiny?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Callum · What happens: happen, tell, be · To what, where: parents, Callum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 of lesson 522 «Adoption» 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	_	11 told	mark
7	Callum	Callum	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 parents	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Callum	case
9	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 told	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	aux
11	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 happen	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 tiny	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tiny	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tiny	cop
16	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 told	xcomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		Callum's parents	Callum		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic
3	is not said to happen	past	Callum			tiny property	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

His cousin would never have known

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 known	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 known	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 known	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 known	aux
6	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	would · perfect · passive		His cousin					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He would never be curious at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 curious	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 curious	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 curious	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 curious	cop
5	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 curious	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	would	He			all		curious property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It wouldn't have been such a shock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 shock	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 shock	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 been	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 been	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 shock	cop
6	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	8 shock	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shock	det
8	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	It	such shock					tree rules

Option 4

He would have been even angrier at nine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 angrier	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 angrier	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 angrier	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 angrier	cop
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 angrier	advmod
6	angrier	angry	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 nine	case
8	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 angrier	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would · perfect	He			nine		angry property	tree rules

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