Test 6 · ★ · Who stole the remote? Jumping to conclusions at home

What would have happened if Mum had tried another plug first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum · What happens: happen, try · To what, where: plug

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 162 «Who stole the remote? Jumping to conclusions at home» 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	4 happened	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happened	aux
4	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 tried	mark
6	Mum	Mum	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tried	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tried	aux
8	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 plug	det
10	plug	plug	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tried	obj
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 tried	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Mum	another plug				first property	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plug=Eventuality

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

She'd have found that the charger was really broken after all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 found	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 found	aux
4	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 broken	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 charger	det
7	charger	charger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 broken	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 broken	aux:pass
9	really	really	ADV	_	10 broken	advmod
10	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 found	ccomp
11	after	after	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 broken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would · perfect	She						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	break	past · passive		the charger			after all		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She'd have found the charger worked and nobody broke it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 found	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 found	aux
4	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 worked	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 charger	det
6	charger	charger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obj
7	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 broke	cc
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 broke	nsubj
10	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 worked	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	find	would · perfect	She	the charger	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charger=Topic
2	work	past			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	break	past	nobody	charger	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient

Option 3

Both plugs would have stopped working

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 plugs	det
2	plugs	plug	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stopped	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stopped	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 stopped	aux
5	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stopped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would · perfect · passive		both plugs					tree rules
2	work	gerund							vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

She'd still have needed a new phone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 needed	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 needed	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	5 needed	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 needed	aux
5	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 phone	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 phone	amod
8	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 needed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	would · perfect	She	a new phone			still		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot phone=Theme

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