Test 9 · ★ · Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day

What would happen if Callum knew only the 8:10 bus time and missed it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Callum · What happens: happen, know, miss · To what, where: it

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 104 «Timetables: buses, trains, TV and the school day» of the world 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 knew	mark
5	Callum	Callum	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 knew	nsubj
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	only	only	ADV	_	11 time	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
9	8:10	8:10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 bus	nummod
10	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 time	compound
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knew	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 missed	cc
13	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 knew	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 missed	obj
15	?	?	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	know a condition, not said to happen	past	Callum		time	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	miss	past	Callum not said here	it		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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

The 8:10 bus would come back for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bus	det
2	8:10	8:10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 bus	nummod
3	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	would	the 8:10 bus					for him = he	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The timetable would change for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 timetable	det
2	timetable	timetable	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 change	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 change	aux
4	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	the timetable					for him = he	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He would not know how long to wait for the next one

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 know	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 wait	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 wait	mark
8	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	ccomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 one	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 one	det
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	would	He						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	wait	to-infinitive						for the next one; long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

No more buses would come that day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	ADV	_	2 more	advmod
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 buses	amod
3	buses	bus	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	would	more buses				day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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