Test 10 · ★★ · A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wr…

What would happen in a fair court if there was no real evidence against the Knave?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: real evidence · What happens: happen, be · To what, where: fair court

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 191 «A fair trial, and the Wonderland court that gets it all wrong» 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	in	in	ADP	_	7 court	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 court	det
6	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 court	amod
7	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 was	mark
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 evidence	det
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 evidence	amod
13	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	nsubj
14	against	against	ADP	_	16 Knave	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Knave	det
16	Knave	knave	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 evidence	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				a fair court			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in court=Location
2	be a condition, not said to happen	past	no real evidence against the Knave			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

He would have to prove he never ate a tart

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 prove	mark
5	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ate	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 ate	advmod
8	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 prove	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tart	det
10	tart	tart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	would	He		tree rules
2	prove	to-infinitive	He not said here		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not eat	past	he	a tart	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tart=Patient

Option 2

He would be found guilty anyway, to be safe

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 found	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 found	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 found	aux:pass
4	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 found	xcomp
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 found	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 safe	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	10 safe	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 safe	cop
10	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 found	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would · passive		He				anyway, guilty property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	is	to-infinitive						safe property	tree rules

Option 3

The judge would choose a punishment at random

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 judge	det
2	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 choose	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 choose	aux
4	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 punishment	det
6	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 choose	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 random	case
8	random	random	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 choose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	would	the judge	a punishment		random			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent punishment=Theme at random=Asset

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He would be found not guilty and go free

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 found	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 found	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 found	aux:pass
4	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 guilty	advmod
6	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 found	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 go	cc
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 found	conj
9	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would · passive		He				guilty property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
2	go	infinitive						free property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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