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title: If Maddie had joined Kieran's revenge, what would most likely have h… — Standing by a friend · tree and pragmatics
description: If Maddie had joined Kieran's revenge, what would most likely have happened? Test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 370 «Standing by a friend» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 11 · ★★★ · Standing by a friend

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If Maddie had joined Kieran's revenge, what would most likely have happened?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Maddie, revenge, Kieran · **What happens:** join, happen, revenge · **To what, where:** revenge

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This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 370 «Standing by a friend» of the everyday 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t11:1
# text = If Maddie had joined Kieran's revenge, what would most likely have happened?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
14	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | past · perfect | Maddie | Kieran's revenge |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revenge=Patient |
| 2 | **happen** | would · perfect | Kieran's revenge |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **revenge** |  | Kieran |  |  |  |  |  | nom revenge «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The teachers would never find out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t11:o1:1
# text = The teachers would never find out
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **find out** | would | the teachers |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Kieran would be happy and safe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t11:o2:1
# text = Kieran would be happy and safe
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Kieran |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Kieran *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Station Road boys would give up forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t11:o3:1
# text = The Station Road boys would give up forever
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Station	Station	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give up** | would | the Road boys |  |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A new fight and more trouble for everyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:370-standing-by-a-friend:t11:o4:1
# text = A new fight and more trouble for everyone
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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