Test 3 · ★★ · Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no eithe…

What would happen if Kai had said at the start, "A test that others can repeat in real life would convince me"?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kai, others, test · What happens: happen, say, repeat, convince · To what, where: start, test, real life, Kai · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 189 «Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or» 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	_	7 said	mark
5	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	aux
7	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 start	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 start	det
10	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 test	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 test	punct
13	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 test	det
14	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 convince	nsubj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 repeat	obj
16	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 repeat	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 repeat	aux
18	repeat	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 test	acl:relcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 life	case
20	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 life	amod
21	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 repeat	obl
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 convince	aux
23	convince	convince	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happen	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 convince	iobj
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 convince	punct
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Kai			the start	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	repeat in a quote	can	others	a test		real life	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
4	convince in a quote	would	a test		Kai		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer

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

Everyone would know what counts as proof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 know	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 know	aux
3	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 counts	nsubj
5	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 know	ccomp
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 proof	case
7	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 counts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	would	Everyone						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	count	present						as proof	vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as proof=Attribute

Option 2

The argument could never end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 argument	det
2	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 end	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 end	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 end	advmod
5	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not end	could	the argument						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

He would have to believe the blurry photo

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 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 believe	mark
5	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 photo	det
7	blurry	blurry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 photo	amod
8	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 believe	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	He						tree rules
2	believe	to-infinitive	He not said here	the blurry photo					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer photo=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Ghosts would appear when asked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 appear	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 appear	aux
3	appear	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 asked	advmod
5	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 appear	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	would	Ghosts						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	participle	Ghosts not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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