Test 11 · "In the olden days": Grandad's 1990

What would happen if you tried to watch a film online at home in 1995?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, try, watch · To what, where: film, home

This is test 11 of lesson 126 «"In the olden days": Grandad's 1990» 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 tried	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tried	nsubj
6	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 watch	mark
8	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tried	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 film	det
10	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 watch	obj
11	online	online	ADV	_	8 watch	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 home	case
13	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 watch	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 1995	case
15	1995	1995	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 watch	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try a condition, not said to happen	past	you				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	watch not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	a film	home	in 1995; online property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent film=Theme

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

It would be completely free and start instantly

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	5 free	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 free	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 free	cop
4	completely	completely	ADV	_	5 free	advmod
5	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 start	cc
7	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 free	conj
8	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	7 start	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					completely, free property	tree rules
2	start	infinitive						instantly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

It would work fine, but only on the big family TV

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 work	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 work	aux
3	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 work	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 TV	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 TV	cc
7	only	only	ADV	_	12 TV	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	12 TV	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 TV	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 TV	amod
11	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 TV	compound
12	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	would	It	fine		the big family TV			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent fine=Material

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

You couldn't really: dial-up was far too slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 really	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 really	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 dial	punct
6	dial	dial	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 really	conj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 up	punct
8	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 slow	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 slow	cop
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 slow	advmod
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 slow	advmod
12	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dial	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dial	infinitive							tree rules
2	is	past	up					far, slow property	tree rules

Option 4

It would load in a second, just like it does now

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 load	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 load	aux
3	load	load	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 second	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 second	det
6	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 load	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 does	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	11 does	advmod
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	11 does	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 does	nsubj
11	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 load	conj
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 does	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	load	would	It				second		vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	it				now		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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