Test 2 · ★★ · «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes

What would most likely happen if Corey had punched the boy?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Corey · What happens: happen, punch · To what, where: boy

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 524 ««Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes» 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 punched	mark
7	Corey	Corey	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 punched	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 punched	aux
9	punched	punch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 happen	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 punched	obj
12	?	?	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	punch a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Corey	the boy					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient

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

Mr Hassan would give Corey a prize

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 give	nsubj
2	Hassan	Hassan	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mr	flat
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Corey	Corey	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 give	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 prize	det
7	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would	Mr	a prize	Corey				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent corey=Recipient prize=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The boy would say sorry at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 say	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	the boy	sorry					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic

Option 3

The teasing would stop forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 teasing	det
2	teasing	teasing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	forever	forever	ADV	_	4 stop	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	the teasing					forever property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Corey would be in trouble too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Corey	Corey	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 trouble	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 trouble	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 trouble	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 trouble	case
5	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	too	too	ADV	_	5 trouble	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Corey			trouble			tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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