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title: What would have happened if Sam kept following Jake to the bike shed? — Growing apart · tree and pragmatics
description: What would have happened if Sam kept following Jake to the bike shed? Test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 464 «Growing apart» 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 9 · ★★★ · Growing apart

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What would have happened if Sam kept following Jake to the bike shed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Sam · **What happens:** happen, keep, follow · **To what, where:** Jake, bike shed

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This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 464 «Growing apart» 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/464-growing-apart/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:464-growing-apart:t9:1
# text = What would have happened if Sam kept following Jake to the bike shed?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	shed	shed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Sam |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund | Sam *not said here* | Jake |  | the bike shed |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent jake=Theme to shed=Trajectory |

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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 {#o1}

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Jake would have dropped his new mates

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:464-growing-apart:t9:o1:1
# text = Jake would have dropped his new mates
1	Jake	Jake	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	dropped	drop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mates	mate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | would · perfect | Jake | Jake's new mates |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Year 6 lads would have made Sam king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:464-growing-apart:t9:o2:1
# text = The Year 6 lads would have made Sam king
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	lads	lad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | would · perfect |  | Sam king |  |  | year |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset king=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing at all would change for Sam

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:464-growing-apart:t9:o3:1
# text = Nothing at all would change for Sam
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | would | Nothing |  |  |  |  | for Sam | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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More «little nerd» and more hurt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:464-growing-apart:t9:o4:1
# text = More «little nerd» and more hurt
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	nerd	nerd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	hurt	hurt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

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