Test 4 · The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline

What would happen to grassroots football if all teenage refs quit because of abuse?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: teenage refs · What happens: happen, quit

This is test 4 of lesson 68 «The coach who shouts and parents on the touchline» 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	to	to	ADP	_	6 football	case
5	grassroots	grassroot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 football	compound
6	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 quit	mark
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 refs	det
9	teenage	teenage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 refs	amod
10	refs	ref	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 quit	nsubj
11	quit	quit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
12	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	14 abuse	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	12 because	fixed
14	abuse	abuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 quit	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to grassroots football	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	quit a condition, not said to happen	present	all teenage refs					because abuse	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Kids would never argue again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 argue	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 argue	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 argue	advmod
4	argue	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 argue	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not argue speech: disagree	would	Kids				again		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Games would go on just the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 same	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 same	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	would	Games					same property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Parents would happily ref every game better instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ref	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 ref	aux
3	happily	happily	ADV	_	4 ref	advmod
4	ref	ref	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 game	det
6	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ref	obj
7	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 ref	advmod
8	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 ref	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ref	would	Parents	every game				happily, instead, well property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

There'd be no refs and fewer games

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 be	expl
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 refs	det
5	refs	ref	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 be	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 games	cc
7	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 games	amod
8	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 refs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	would	no refs and fewer games			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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