Test 10 · ★★ · "If... then..." and its traps

What would happen if Leo's dog only ever barked when someone was at the door?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: someone · What happens: happen, bark, be · To what, where: dog, door

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 184 «"If... then..." and its traps» 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	_	10 barked	mark
5	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dog	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Leo	case
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 barked	nsubj:pass
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 barked	advmod
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 barked	advmod
10	barked	bark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 door	advmod
12	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 door	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 door	cop
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 door	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 door	det
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 barked	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bark a condition, not said to happen	participle · passive		Leo's dog		ever	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
3	is	past	someone		the door		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 · ✓ the right answer

Then "he's barking, so someone's there" would work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 barking	advmod
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 barking	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 barking	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 barking	aux
5	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 work	csubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 there	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 there	advmod
8	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 there	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 someone	case
10	there	there	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 barking	obl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 there	punct
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 work	aux
13	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark in a quote	present · progressive	he	someone's there			then		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	work	would	barking						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Leo's reasoning would still be wrong, whatever the dog did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 reasoning	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Leo	case
3	reasoning	reasoning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wrong	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 wrong	aux
5	still	still	ADV	_	7 wrong	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 wrong	cop
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 whatever	punct
9	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 wrong	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dog	det
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 did	nsubj
12	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 whatever	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Leo's reasoning	still	wrong property	tree rules
2	do	past	the dog			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	reason		Leo			nom reasoning «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Squirrels would stop coming to the garden near the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 garden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 garden	det
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coming	obl
8	near	near	ADP	_	10 door	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	Squirrels						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	come	gerund	Squirrels not said here			the door		to the garden	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to garden=Initial_Location

Option 4

The dog would stop barking at anything ever again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	barking	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 anything	case
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 barking	obl
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 again	advmod
9	again	again	ADV	_	5 barking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	the dog						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	bark	gerund	the dog not said here				again	at anything	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at anything=Stimulus

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