Test 5 · ★★ · Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes

What would happen if every verb became regular?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: verb · What happens: happen, become

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes» 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	_	7 became	mark
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 verb	det
6	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 became	nsubj
7	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 became	xcomp
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	become a condition, not said to happen	past	every verb					regular property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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

English would lose its past tense

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lose	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tense	nmod:poss
5	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tense	amod
6	tense	tense	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	English	its past tense					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tense=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Every verb would end in -ought

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 verb	det
2	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 end	aux
4	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 ought	case
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 in	punct
7	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 end	parataxis

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

Option 3

Nothing at all, because verbs never really change their forms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 change	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 change	mark
6	verbs	verb	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 change	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 change	advmod
8	really	really	ADV	_	9 change	advmod
9	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	conj
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 forms	nmod:poss
11	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not change	infinitive	verbs	verbs's forms					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Patient
2	form		verbs = verb						nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

We'd say "goed" and "thinked", and the old forms would vanish

The tree, 12 words

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 say	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 say	aux
3	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 goed	punct
5	goed	goed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 say	obj
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 goed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 thinked	cc
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 thinked	punct
9	thinked	thinke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 goed	conj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 thinked	punct
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 vanish	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 vanish	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 forms	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 forms	amod
15	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 vanish	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 vanish	aux
17	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	We	goed	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goed=Topic
2	thinke in a quote	participle	We not said here		tree rules
3	vanish	would	the old forms		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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