Test 6 · ★ · Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too…

What would happen if Sophie kept begging to join the club every day?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sophie · What happens: happen, keep, beg, join · To what, where: club

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 22 «Lonely and different: accents, big brothers and being too much» 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	Sophie	Sophie	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	begging	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 join	mark
9	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 begging	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 club	det
11	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 join	obj
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 join	obl:unmarked
14	?	?	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	Sophie			tree rules
3	beg speech: request	gerund	Sophie not said here			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	join not said to happen	to-infinitive	Sophie not said here	the club	day	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent club=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

They would definitely let her in by Friday

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 let	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
3	definitely	definitely	ADV	_	4 let	advmod
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	4 let	compound:prt
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 Friday	case
8	Friday	Friday	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 let	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let in	would	They	her = she			friday	definitely property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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

It would probably hurt more and not get her in

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 hurt	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hurt	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 hurt	advmod
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 hurt	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 get	cc
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 get	advmod
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hurt	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 get	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	8 get	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	would	It					probably property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
2	not get in	infinitive		her = she					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

Option 3

Her begging would make her the club's leader

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 begging	nmod:poss
2	begging	begging	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 club	det
7	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leader	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 club	case
9	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	Her begging	the club's leader	her = she				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary leader=Product

Option 4

The club would close and everyone would be friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 club	det
2	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 close	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 close	aux
4	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 friends	cc
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 friends	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 friends	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 friends	cop
9	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 close	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	would	the club						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	would	everyone	friends					tree rules

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