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title: What would probably happen if nobody showed a grown-up the photo of… — The group chat that turns · tree and pragmatics
description: What would probably happen if nobody showed a grown-up the photo of Sam asleep? Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 479 «The group chat that turns» 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 · ★★ · The group chat that turns

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What would probably happen if nobody showed a grown-up the photo of Sam asleep?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nobody · **What happens:** happen, show, grow up · **To what, where:** grown photo

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This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 479 «The group chat that turns» 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/479-the-group-chat-that-turns/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:479-the-group-chat-that-turns:t9:1
# text = What would probably happen if nobody showed a grown-up the photo of Sam asleep?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	_
7	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
9	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **show** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | nobody | a grown photo of Sam |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent photo=Recipient |
| 3 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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 {#o1}

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Sam would find it funny later and post it himself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:479-the-group-chat-that-turns:t9:o1:1
# text = Sam would find it funny later and post it himself
1	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	post	post	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | would | Sam | it |  |  |  | funny, late *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **post** | infinitive | Sam *not said here* | it |  |  |  | Sam *obl:unmarked* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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It would keep spreading and Sam would stay upset

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:479-the-group-chat-that-turns:t9:o2:1
# text = It would keep spreading and Sam would stay upset
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	spreading	spread	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | would | It |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **spread** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stay** | would | Sam |  |  |  |  | upset *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Everyone would forget by teatime

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:479-the-group-chat-that-turns:t9:o3:1
# text = Everyone would forget by teatime
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	teatime	teatime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | would | Everyone |  |  |  |  | by teatime | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It would vanish on its own in a day or so

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:479-the-group-chat-that-turns:t9:o4:1
# text = It would vanish on its own in a day or so
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	vanish	vanish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	_
```

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

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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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