Test 8 · ★★ · The brother who never does anything wrong: double standard…

What would happen if Dad swapped names in his rule: "Kids can't have sweets, but kids need energy"?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad, Kids · What happens: happen, swap, not have, need, rule · To what, where: names, rule, sweets, energy

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 165 «The brother who never does anything wrong: double standards 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	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 swapped	mark
5	Dad	Dad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 swapped	nsubj
6	swapped	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swapped	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 rule	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 rule	nmod:poss
10	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swapped	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
13	Kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 have	nsubj
14	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 have	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 have	advmod
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happen	conj
17	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 have	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 need	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 need	cc
20	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 need	nsubj
21	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 have	advcl
22	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 need	obj
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 need	punct
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	swap a condition, not said to happen	past	Dad	names	Dad's rule	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme
3	not have in a quote	can	Kids	sweets		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweet=Patient
4	need in a quote	present	kids	energy		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot energy=Theme
5	rule		Dad			nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer

He'd see the rule only works when it suits him

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 see	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rule	det
5	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obj
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 works	advmod
7	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rule	acl:relcl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 suits	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 suits	nsubj
10	suits	suit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 see	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 suits	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	see	would	He	the rule	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rule=Stimulus
2	work	present	the rule not said here		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	suit	present	rule	him = he	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The rule would become fairer for grown-ups

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rule	det
2	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	fairer	fair	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 become	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 ups	case
7	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 ups	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 grown	punct
9	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fairer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	the rule					fair property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nothing, because rules don't change with names

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 change	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 change	mark
4	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 change	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 change	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 change	advmod
7	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 names	case
9	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not change	present · do-support	rules					with names	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He'd prove that sugar is good for kids

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 prove	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 prove	aux
3	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 good	mark
5	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 good	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 good	cop
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 prove	ccomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 kids	case
9	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 good	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	would	He						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	sugar					for kids; good property	tree rules

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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