Test 6 · ★ · Crypto and the stock market, simply

What would happen if a famous company had a terrible year?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: famous company · What happens: happen, have

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 38 «Crypto and the stock market, simply» 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	_	8 had	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 company	det
6	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 company	amod
7	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 year	det
10	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 year	amod
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
12	?	?	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	have a condition, not said to happen	past	a famous company				year		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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

Nothing, famous companies' shares never move

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shares	punct
3	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 companies	amod
4	companies	company	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shares	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 companies	case
6	shares	share	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nothing	conj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 move	advmod
8	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not move	present							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	share		famous companies						nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Its shareholders would get free products

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 shareholders	nmod:poss
2	shareholders	shareholder	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 products	amod
6	products	product	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Its shareholders	free products					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer product=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Its share price would probably fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 price	nmod:poss
2	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 price	compound
3	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fall	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fall	aux
5	probably	probably	ADV	_	6 fall	advmod
6	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	Its share price					probably property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Its share price would definitely double

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 price	nmod:poss
2	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 price	compound
3	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 double	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 double	aux
5	definitely	definitely	ADV	_	6 double	advmod
6	double	double	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	double	would	Its share price					definitely property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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