Test 6 · ★★★ · Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim

What would happen if Grace and Liam each had to say the other's best reason first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grace · What happens: happen, have, say · To what, where: best reason · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «Putting it together: explain each side, check the claim» 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 had	mark
5	Grace	Grace	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Liam	cc
7	Liam	Liam	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Grace	conj
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 Grace	flat
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 say	mark
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 had	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 other	det
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 reason	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 other	case
15	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 reason	amod
16	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 say	obj
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 say	advmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	Grace and Liam			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Grace and Liam not said here	the other's best reason	first property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent reason=Topic

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

One of them would still have to win everything and the other get nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 have	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 have	advmod
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 win	mark
8	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 have	xcomp
9	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 win	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 get	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 other	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 get	nsubj
13	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 have	conj
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	would	One of them		still	tree rules
2	win	to-infinitive	One of them not said here	everything		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality
3	get	present	the other	nothing		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

Option 2

They would never be allowed to argue about anything at school again

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	5 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 allowed	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 allowed	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 allowed	aux:pass
5	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 argue	mark
7	argue	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 allowed	xcomp
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 anything	case
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 argue	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 school	case
11	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 argue	obl
12	again	again	ADV	_	7 argue	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	would · passive		They					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	argue speech: disagree not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here			school	again	about anything	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about anything=Topic

Option 3

They would both forget what they wanted in the first place and go home

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	4 forget	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 forget	aux
3	both	both	ADV	_	4 forget	advmod
4	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 wanted	obj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wanted	nsubj
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 forget	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 place	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 place	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 place	amod
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wanted	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 go	cc
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 forget	conj
14	home	home	ADV	_	13 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	forget	would	They		both property	tree rules
2	want	past	they	the first place		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
3	go	infinitive	They not said here		home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They would understand each other and could find a middle way

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 understand	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 understand	aux
3	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	3 understand	obj
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 each	fixed
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 find	cc
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 find	aux
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 understand	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 way	det
10	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 way	amod
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	understand	would	They	each					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus
2	find	could	They not said here	a middle way					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

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