Test 8 · ★ · The rumour that grows

What would have happened if Priya had checked the school website first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Priya · What happens: happen, check · To what, where: school website

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 167 «The rumour that grows» 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 checked	mark
6	Priya	Priya	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 checked	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 checked	aux
8	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 website	det
10	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 website	compound
11	website	website	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 checked	obj
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 checked	advmod
13	?	?	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	check a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Priya	the school website				first property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent website=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

She'd have found it was non-uniform day 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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 day	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 day	cop
7	non-uniform	non-uniform	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 day	compound
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obl:unmarked
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would · perfect	She				after all		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	non-uniform day					tree rules

Option 2

Half the class would still have come in onesies, whatever the website said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	3 class	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 class	det
3	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
5	still	still	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 onesies	case
9	onesies	onesie	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 come	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 whatever	punct
11	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 said	obj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 website	det
13	website	website	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 onesies	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	would · perfect	half class			onesies	still		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in onesie=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the website	whatever					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent whatever=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She'd have seen it wasn't non-uniform day at her school

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 seen	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 seen	aux
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 day	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 day	cop
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 day	advmod
8	non-uniform	non-uniform	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 day	compound
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seen	obl:unmarked
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 school	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 school	nmod:poss
12	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 day	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	would · perfect	She						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not is a	past	it	non-uniform day		her school			tree rules

Option 4

The website would have agreed with her cousin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 website	det
2	website	website	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 agreed	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 agreed	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 agreed	aux
5	agreed	agree	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 cousin	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cousin	nmod:poss
8	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 agreed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	would · perfect · passive		the website				with her cousin	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic

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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