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description: What would most likely have happened if Kieran kept lending Deano money every week? Test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 470 «The friend who only calls when they need something» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 9 · ★★★ · The friend who only calls when they need something

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What would most likely have happened if Kieran kept lending Deano money every week?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Kieran · **What happens:** happen, keep, lend · **To what, where:** Deano money

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This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 470 «The friend who only calls when they need something» 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/470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something:t9:1
# text = What would most likely have happened if Kieran kept lending Deano money every week?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	lending	lend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	Deano	Deano	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Kieran |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lend** | gerund | Kieran *not said here* | Deano money |  |  | week |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=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 {#o1}

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Deano would pay it all back Friday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something:t9:o1:1
# text = Deano would pay it all back Friday
1	Deano	Deano	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | would | Deano | it |  |  | friday |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient back=Asset |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The debt would vanish by itself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something:t9:o2:1
# text = The debt would vanish by itself
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	debt	debt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	vanish	vanish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanish** | would | the debt |  |  |  |  | by debt | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Kieran would keep losing money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something:t9:o3:1
# text = Kieran would keep losing money
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | would | Kieran |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | gerund | Kieran *not said here* | money |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Deano would start lending to Kieran

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:470-the-friend-who-only-calls-when-they-need-something:t9:o4:1
# text = Deano would start lending to Kieran
1	Deano	Deano	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	lending	lend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | would | Deano |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **lend** | gerund | Deano *not said here* |  | Kieran |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to kieran=Recipient |

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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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