Test 6 · ★ · Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who

What would happen if English had no pronouns at all?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: English · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: pronouns, all

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 5 «Pronouns: I, me, you, they and who» of the language 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	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 had	mark
5	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 pronouns	det
8	pronouns	pronoun	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 pronouns	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	English	no pronouns		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pronoun=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

Sentences would become shorter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sentences	sentence	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	Sentences					short property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Nothing, because names already do the same job perfectly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 do	mark
4	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	nsubj
5	already	already	ADV	_	6 do	advmod
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 job	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 job	amod
9	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obj
10	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	6 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	names	the same job				perfectly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

We'd never know who did anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	ccomp
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	would	We						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	past		anything					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

We'd repeat names and nouns again and again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 repeat	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 repeat	aux
3	repeat	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 repeat	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 nouns	cc
6	nouns	noun	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 names	conj
7	again	again	ADV	_	3 repeat	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 again	cc
9	again	again	ADV	_	7 again	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	repeat	would	We	names and nouns			again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Eventuality

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