Test 3 · ★ · Losing well and winning well

What would happen if Noah walked the handshake line even though it stung?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Noah, line · What happens: happen, walk, sting · To what, where: handshake line

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 67 «Losing well and winning well» 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 walked	mark
5	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 walked	nsubj
6	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 line	det
8	handshake	handshake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 line	compound
9	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walked	obj
10	even	even	ADV	_	13 stung	advmod
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 stung	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stung	nsubj
13	stung	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 walked	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk a condition, not said to happen	past	Noah	the handshake line	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme line=Trajectory
3	sting	past	line		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

He'd keep the respect of both teams

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 keep	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 respect	det
5	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 teams	case
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 teams	det
8	teams	team	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 respect	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	He	the respect of both teams					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respect=Theme
2	respect			both teams					nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

His coach would bench him for being too soft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 coach	nmod:poss
2	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bench	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bench	aux
4	bench	bench	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bench	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 soft	case
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 soft	cop
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 soft	advmod
9	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bench	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bench	would	His coach	him = he					vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	is	gerund						soft property	tree rules

Option 3

He'd lose the next match for sure

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 lose	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 match	det
5	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 match	amod
6	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 sure	case
8	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	He	the next match				for sure	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Eventuality

Option 4

The other team would laugh at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 team	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 team	amod
3	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 laugh	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 laugh	aux
5	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laugh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	would	the other team					at him = he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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