Test 4 · ★ · Protests, petitions and young activists

What would happen if Oisin got split from his cousin at a big march?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, split · To what, where: Oisin

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 38 «Protests, petitions and young activists» 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	_	7 split	mark
5	Oisin	Oisin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 split	nsubj
6	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 split	aux:pass
7	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 cousin	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cousin	nmod:poss
10	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 split	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 march	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 march	det
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 march	amod
14	march	march	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cousin	nmod
15	?	?	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	split a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		Oisin				from Oisin's cousin at a big march	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from cousin=Co-Patient

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

He would just stay wherever he was

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 stay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 stay	advmod
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	4 stay	parataxis
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wherever	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wherever	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	He						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	he					wherever property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They would go to the meeting point they agreed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 point	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 point	det
6	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 point	compound
7	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 agreed	nsubj
9	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 point	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	They			the meeting point			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to point=Initial_Location
2	agree speech: agree	past	they	the meeting point not said here					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent point=Topic

Option 3

He would follow the loudest group

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 follow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 follow	aux
3	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 group	det
5	loudest	loud	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 group	amod
6	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 follow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	would	He	the loudest group					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Theme

Option 4

He would go to the front of the crowd

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 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 front	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 front	det
6	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 crowd	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crowd	det
9	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	He			the front of the crowd			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to front=Initial_Location

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