Test 3 · ★ · Algorithms, bubbles and false balance

What would happen if Kai liked every car video he saw for a month?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kai · What happens: happen, like, see · To what, where: car video

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 34 «Algorithms, bubbles and false balance» of the politics 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 liked	mark
5	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 liked	nsubj
6	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 video	det
8	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 video	compound
9	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 liked	obj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 video	acl:relcl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 month	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 month	det
14	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obl
15	?	?	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	like a condition, not said to happen	past	Kai	every car video		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot video=Theme
3	see	past	Kai	every car video not said here	month	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer video=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

His feed would show every topic equally

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 feed	nmod:poss
2	feed	feed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 show	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 topic	det
6	topic	topic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 show	obj
7	equally	equally	ADV	_	4 show	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	would	His feed	every topic				equally property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent topic=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

His feed would fill up even more with car videos

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 feed	nmod:poss
2	feed	feed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fill	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fill	aux
4	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 fill	compound:prt
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 fill	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 videos	case
9	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 videos	compound
10	videos	video	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill up	would	His feed					with car videos	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with video=Instrument

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

His feed would show him only cooking videos

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 feed	nmod:poss
2	feed	feed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 show	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 show	iobj
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 cooking	advmod
7	cooking	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 show	xcomp
8	videos	video	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cooking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	would	His feed		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	cook	gerund	His feed not said here	videos					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent video=Patient

Option 4

The app would stop showing him any videos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 app	det
2	app	app	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 showing	obj
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 videos	det
8	videos	video	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 showing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	the app						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	show	gerund	the app not said here	any videos	app				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient video=Topic

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