Test 4 · Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions

What would happen if Grandad wrote down every match for a whole season, with socks and without?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grandad · What happens: happen, write down · To what, where: match

This is test 4 of lesson 161 «Lucky socks and Grandma's superstitions» 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 wrote	mark
5	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wrote	nsubj
6	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 wrote	compound:prt
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 match	det
9	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrote	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 season	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 season	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 season	amod
13	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrote	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 socks	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 socks	case
16	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 season	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 without	cc
18	without	without	ADP	_	6 wrote	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	write down a condition, not said to happen	past	Grandad	every match			season		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=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

He would find the team only wins with the socks

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	3 find	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 team	det
5	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wins	nsubj
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 wins	advmod
7	wins	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 find	ccomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 socks	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 socks	det
10	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wins	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	He						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	win	present	the team					with the socks	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He would find the socks only work away from home

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	3 find	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 socks	det
5	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 work	nsubj
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 work	advmod
7	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 find	ccomp
8	away	away	ADV	_	3 find	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 home	case
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	He					away property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	work away	present	the socks						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He would find the socks make no difference

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	3 find	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 socks	det
5	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	nsubj
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 find	ccomp
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 difference	det
8	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	He						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	make	present	the socks	no difference					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material difference=Product

Option 4

He would find the team only loses with the socks

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	3 find	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 team	det
5	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 loses	nsubj
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 loses	advmod
7	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 find	ccomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 socks	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 socks	det
10	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 loses	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	He						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	lose	present	the team					with the socks	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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