Test 10 · ★ · Bruises and hand-washing; cats, dogs and ponies

What would happen if you asked for a "kIn" at the pet shop?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, ask · To what, where: pet shop

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 21 «Bruises and hand-washing; cats, dogs and ponies» of the Ukrainian street 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 asked	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 asked	nsubj
6	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 kIn	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 kIn	det
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 kIn	punct
10	kIn	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asked	obl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 shop	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shop	det
14	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shop	compound
15	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				the pet shop			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at shop=Location
2	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	past	you					for a kIn	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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'd give you a puppy

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 give	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 puppy	det
6	puppy	puppy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would	They	a puppy	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient puppy=Theme

Option 2

They'd give you a kitten

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 give	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kitten	det
6	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would	They	a kitten	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient kitten=Theme

Option 3

They'd give you a little goldfish in a bag

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 give	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 give	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 goldfish	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 goldfish	amod
7	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 bag	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bag	det
10	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	would	They	a little goldfish	you	a bag			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient goldfish=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They'd laugh: kIn is a horse

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 laugh	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 laugh	aux
3	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 horse	punct
5	kIn	kin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 horse	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 horse	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laugh	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	would	They						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	kIn	a horse					tree rules

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