Test 2 · Left out: the party, the new school, the third wheel

What would happen if Freya kept refreshing the party photos all evening?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Freya · What happens: happen, keep, refresh · To what, where: party photos

This is test 2 of lesson 21 «Left out: the party, the new school, the third wheel» of the reflection 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 kept	mark
5	Freya	Freya	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	refreshing	refresh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 photos	det
9	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 photos	compound
10	photos	photo	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 refreshing	obj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 evening	det
12	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 refreshing	obl:unmarked
13	?	?	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	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Freya			tree rules
3	refresh	gerund	Freya not said here	the party photos	evening	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus photo=Experiencer

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

It would make no difference at all

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	3 make	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 difference	det
5	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	It	no difference		all			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material difference=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

She would feel as if she had been at the party with them too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 feel	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	aux
3	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	11 party	case
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 as	fixed
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 party	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 party	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 party	cop
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 party	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 party	det
11	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feel	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 party	nmod
14	too	too	ADV	_	3 feel	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	would	She						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	past · perfect	she					as the party; with them = they	tree rules

Option 3

She would get invited to the next party

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 invited	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 invited	aux
3	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 invited	aux:pass
4	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 party	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 party	det
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 party	amod
8	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 invited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invite	would · passive		She				to the next party	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The hurt would probably get sharper again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hurt	det
2	hurt	hurt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
4	probably	probably	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	sharper	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 get	xcomp
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the hurt				again	probably, sharp property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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