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description: If Mr Doyle hadn't come out when Sam was on the fence, what would most likely have happened? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 456 «The bulldog next door who never likes you» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 7 · ★★ · The bulldog next door who never likes you

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If Mr Doyle hadn't come out when Sam was on the fence, what would most likely have happened?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mr, Sam, fence · **What happens:** not come out, be, happen · **To what, where:** fence

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This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 456 «The bulldog next door who never likes you» 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/456-the-bulldog-next-door-who-never-likes-you/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:456-the-bulldog-next-door-who-never-likes-you:t7:1
# text = If Mr Doyle hadn't come out when Sam was on the fence, what would most likely have happened?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	Doyle	Doyle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
9	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
17	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	18	advmod	_	_
18	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux	_	_
20	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **come out** | past | Mr |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | Sam |  |  | the fence |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **happen** | would · perfect | the fence |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Tank would have got hold of Sam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:456-the-bulldog-next-door-who-never-likes-you:t7:o1:1
# text = Tank would have got hold of Sam
1	Tank	Tank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would · perfect | Tank | hold of Sam |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hold** |  |  | Sam |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Tank would have gone back indoors to sleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:456-the-bulldog-next-door-who-never-likes-you:t7:o2:1
# text = Tank would have gone back indoors to sleep
1	Tank	Tank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	indoors	indoors	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | would · perfect | Tank |  |  |  |  | indoors *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | Tank *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Kieran would have pulled Sam to safety

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:456-the-bulldog-next-door-who-never-likes-you:t7:o3:1
# text = Kieran would have pulled Sam to safety
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | would · perfect | Kieran | Sam |  | safety |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sam=Theme to safety=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Tank would have let Sam stroke him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:456-the-bulldog-next-door-who-never-likes-you:t7:o4:1
# text = Tank would have let Sam stroke him
1	Tank	Tank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stroke	stroke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | would · perfect · passive |  | Tank |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stroke** | infinitive | Sam | Tank |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer |

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**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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