Test 5 · ★ · Famous athletes and what being a professional takes

What would happen if Arjun dropped school and wasn't picked by 18?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Arjun · What happens: happen, drop, not pick · To what, where: school

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 63 «Famous athletes and what being a professional takes» of the medicine 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 dropped	mark
5	Arjun	Arjun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dropped	nsubj
6	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dropped	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 picked	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 picked	aux:pass
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 picked	advmod
11	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 dropped	conj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 18	case
13	18	18	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 picked	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drop a condition, not said to happen	past	Arjun	school		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Theme
3	not pick	past · passive	Arjun not said here		by 18	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»

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 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, everyone turns pro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 turns	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 turns	nsubj
4	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	pro	pro	X	Foreign=Yes	4 turns	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Nothing	pro					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme pro=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He'd have fewer choices for a career

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	3 have	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 choices	amod
5	choices	choice	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 career	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 career	det
8	career	career	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	He	fewer choices				for a career	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient

Option 3

He'd be picked automatically later

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	4 picked	nsubj:pass
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 picked	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 picked	aux:pass
4	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	automatically	automatically	ADV	_	4 picked	advmod
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 picked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	would · passive		He				automatically, late property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Clubs would pay him anyway because he'd trained hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clubs	club	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pay	aux
3	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pay	obj
5	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	3 pay	advmod
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 trained	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 trained	nsubj:pass
8	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 trained	aux
9	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 pay	advcl
10	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 trained	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	would	Clubs	him = he				anyway property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset
2	train	past · perfect · passive		he				hard property	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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