Test 7 · ★ · Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel

What would have happened if Freddie's friend had really taken the roof dare?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend · What happens: happen, take · To what, where: roof dare

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 190 «Saying "I was wrong" and laughing without being cruel» 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	_	11 taken	mark
6	Freddie	Freddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 friend	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Freddie	case
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 taken	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 taken	aux
10	really	really	ADV	_	11 taken	advmod
11	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 happened	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dare	det
13	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dare	compound
14	dare	dare	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 taken	obj
15	?	?	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	take a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Freddie's friend	the roof dare					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dare=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

He would have floated down safely

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	4 floated	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 floated	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 floated	aux
4	floated	float	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 floated	compound:prt
6	safely	safely	ADV	_	4 floated	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float down	would · perfect	He					safely property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nothing, because roofs are low

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 low	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 low	mark
4	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 low	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 low	cop
6	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	roofs					low property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He would have proved gravity is fake

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	4 proved	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 proved	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 proved	aux
4	proved	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	gravity	gravity	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fake	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fake	cop
7	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 proved	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	would · perfect	He						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	gravity					fake property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He could have been badly hurt

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	6 hurt	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hurt	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 hurt	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 hurt	aux:pass
5	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 hurt	advmod
6	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	could · perfect · passive		He				badly property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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