Test 4 · How to check: who, how, who else

What would happen if a big story were real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big story · What happens: happen, be

This is test 4 of lesson 35 «How to check: who, how, who else» 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	_	9 real	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 story	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 story	amod
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 real	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 real	cop
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 happen	advcl
10	?	?	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	is a condition, not said to happen	past	a big story					real property	tree rules

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

It would only appear in comments

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 appear	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 appear	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 appear	advmod
4	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 comments	case
6	comments	comment	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 appear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	would	It			comments			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in comment=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Many outlets would usually report it within hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 outlets	amod
2	outlets	outlet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 report	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 report	aux
4	usually	usually	ADV	_	5 report	advmod
5	report	report	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 report	obj
7	within	within	ADP	_	8 hours	case
8	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 report	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	report	would	Many outlets	it			hour	usually property	vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

Nobody would report it for years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 report	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 report	aux
3	report	report	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 report	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 years	case
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 report	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	report	would	Nobody	it			year		vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

Only one strange website would ever have it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 website	nummod
3	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 website	amod
4	website	website	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 have	advmod
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	one strange website	it			ever		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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