Test 5 · ★ · Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sent…

What would happen if we had no conjunctions?

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

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 6 «Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sentences together» 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	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 conjunctions	det
8	conjunctions	conjunction	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
9	?	?	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	we	no conjunctions					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conjunction=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

Nothing, because nouns would simply join the sentences

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	_	7 join	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 join	mark
4	nouns	noun	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 join	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 join	aux
6	simply	simply	ADV	_	7 join	advmod
7	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sentences	det
9	sentences	sentence	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 join	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join	would	nouns	the sentences				simply property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Patient

Option 2

Every sentence would become a question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 sentence	det
2	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 question	det
6	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	xcomp

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

We'd have to say everything in short separate sentences

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 have	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 say	mark
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 say	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 sentences	case
8	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sentences	amod
9	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sentences	amod
10	sentences	sentence	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	We						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	We not said here	everything		short separate sentences			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent everything=Theme in sentence=Manner

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

We could no longer use verbs

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	5 use	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 use	aux
3	no	no	ADV	_	4 longer	advmod
4	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 use	advmod
5	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	verbs	verb	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	could	We	verbs				long property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verb=Patient

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