Test 8 · "Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason

What would happen at the disco if one person started dancing straight away?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one person · What happens: happen, start, dance · To what, where: disco

This is test 8 of lesson 166 «"Everyone has one!": the crowd is not a reason» 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	at	at	ADP	_	6 disco	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 disco	det
6	disco	disco	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 started	mark
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 person	nummod
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 started	nsubj
10	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 started	xcomp
12	straight	straight	ADV	_	13 away	advmod
13	away	away	ADV	_	11 dancing	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	happen	would		the disco		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at disco=Location
2	start a condition, not said to happen	past	one person			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	dance	gerund	one person not said here		away property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

Others would likely join, since many wanted to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 join	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 join	aux
3	likely	likely	ADV	_	4 join	advmod
4	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wanted	punct
6	since	since	SCONJ	_	8 wanted	mark
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wanted	nsubj
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 join	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	8 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join	would	Others					likely property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	want	past	many						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Everyone would leave the disco

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 leave	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 leave	aux
3	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 disco	det
5	disco	disco	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	would	Everyone	the disco					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disco=Theme

Option 3

Nobody would ever dance again after that, because it would be embarrassing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 dance	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dance	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 dance	advmod
4	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 dance	advmod
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 dance	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 embarrassing	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 embarrassing	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 embarrassing	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 embarrassing	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 embarrassing	cop
13	embarrassing	embarrassing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dance	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	would	Nobody				after that; ever; again		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	would	it					embarrassing property	tree rules

Option 4

The music would have to stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 music	det
2	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 stop	mark
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	the music						tree rules
2	stop	to-infinitive	the music not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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