Test 2 · ★★★ · Sounds wrong, but is right

What would happen if Leo played 30 rounds and always stayed with his first cup?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Leo · What happens: happen, play, stay · To what, where: 30 rounds

This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 182 «Sounds wrong, but is right» 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 played	mark
5	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 played	nsubj
6	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 rounds	nummod
8	rounds	round	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 played	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stayed	cc
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 stayed	advmod
11	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 played	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 cup	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 cup	nmod:poss
14	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 cup	amod
15	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stayed	obl
16	?	?	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	play a condition, not said to happen	past	Leo	30 rounds		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent round=Theme
3	stay	past	Leo not said here		with Leo's first cup; always property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with cup=Location

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

He would win about 15 times, half of them

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 win	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 win	aux
3	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 15	advmod
5	15	15	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 times	nummod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 win	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 half	punct
8	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 win	parataxis
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 half	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	would	He				time		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He would win all 30 times in a row

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 win	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 win	aux
3	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 times	det
5	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 times	nummod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 win	obl:unmarked
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 row	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 row	det
9	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 win	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	would	He			a row	time		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in row=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He would win only about 10 times

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 win	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 win	aux
3	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 10	advmod
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 10	advmod
6	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 times	nummod
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 win	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	would	He				time		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He would win about 20 times, like switching

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 win	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 win	aux
3	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 20	advmod
5	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 times	nummod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 win	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 switching	punct
8	like	like	SCONJ	_	9 switching	mark
9	switching	switch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 win	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	would	He				time		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	switch	gerund	He not said here						vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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