Test 11 · ★★ · Bets, dares and silly reasons

What would happen if everybody followed the rule "do every dare or you're scared"?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everybody, you · What happens: happen, follow, be · To what, where: rule

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 169 «Bets, dares and silly reasons» 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 followed	mark
5	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 followed	nsubj
6	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rule	det
8	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 followed	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 dare	punct
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dare	aux
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 dare	det
12	dare	dare	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rule	appos
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 scared	cc
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 scared	nsubj
15	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 scared	cop
16	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dare	conj
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 scared	punct
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	follow a condition, not said to happen	past	everybody	the rule		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	you		scared property	tree rules

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

Everyone would quickly become braver, and safer too, in the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 become	advmod
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	braver	brave	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 become	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 safer	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 safer	cc
8	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 become	xcomp
9	too	too	ADV	_	8 safer	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 end	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 end	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 end	det
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	Everyone					brave, quickly, safe property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Nobody would ever get hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 hurt	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hurt	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 hurt	advmod
4	get	get	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 hurt	aux:pass
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	would · passive		Nobody			ever		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Kids would end up doing dangerous things for no reason

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 end	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 end	aux
3	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 end	compound:prt
5	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 end	xcomp
6	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 things	amod
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 doing	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 reason	case
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 reason	det
10	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	would	Kids						tree rules
2	do	gerund	Kids not said here	dangerous things				for no reason	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

Option 4

Dares would stop being fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dares	dare	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 fun	cop
5	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stop	xcomp

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

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