Test 5 · ★★ · Friends who cling to a legend

What would happen if you made every fact argument a bet?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, make · To what, where: fact argument

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 31 «Friends who cling to a legend» of the myths 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 made	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 argument	det
8	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 argument	compound
9	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bet	det
11	bet	bet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	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	make a condition, not said to happen	past	you	every fact argument					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset argument=Beneficiary bet=Product

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

Facts would become more true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 true	amod
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	Facts					true property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

You'd become the cleverest in school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 become	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cleverest	det
5	cleverest	clever	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 become	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 school	case
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cleverest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	You					clever property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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

You'd lose things and maybe friends, even when right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 lose	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lose	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 friends	cc
6	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	7 friends	advmod
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 things	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 right	punct
9	even	even	ADV	_	11 right	advmod
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 right	advmod
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lose	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	You	things and friends					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

Option 4

Everyone would want to argue with you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 want	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 want	aux
3	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 argue	mark
5	argue	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	xcomp
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 argue	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	would	Everyone						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	argue speech: disagree not said to happen	to-infinitive	Everyone not said here					with you	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with you=Co-Agent

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