Test 8 · ★★★ · Regret, silly buys and peer pressure

What would happen if Jack waited a month before buying the fidget toy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jack · What happens: happen, wait, buy · To what, where: fidget toy

This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Regret, silly buys and peer pressure» of the money 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 waited	mark
5	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 waited	nsubj
6	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 month	det
8	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 waited	obl:unmarked
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 buying	mark
10	buying	buy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 waited	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 toy	det
12	fidget	fidget	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 toy	compound
13	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 buying	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wait a condition, not said to happen	past	Jack		month	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	buy	gerund	Jack not said here	the fidget toy		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toy=Theme

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 probably see it was a fad and keep his £10

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 see	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fad	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fad	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fad	det
8	fad	fad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 keep	cc
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 see	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 £	nmod:poss
12	£	£	SYM	_	10 keep	obj
13	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 £	nummod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	would	He		probably property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	it	a fad		tree rules
3	keep	infinitive	He not said here			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent £=Theme

Option 2

The toy would cost £20 by then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 toy	det
2	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cost	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cost	aux
4	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	£	£	SYM	_	4 cost	obj
6	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 £	nummod
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 then	case
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 cost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	would	the toy						vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme £=Value

Option 3

He'd have to buy two of them

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	to	to	PART	_	5 buy	mark
5	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 buy	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 two	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	He						tree rules
2	buy	to-infinitive	He not said here	two of them					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Theme

Option 4

Nothing would change at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing			all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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