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title: What would probably happen if Leila kept going to Dad every time Mum… — Parents who row, and one kind and one… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would probably happen if Leila kept going to Dad every time Mum said no? Test 4 of lesson 496 «Parents who row, and one kind and one not» 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 4 · Parents who row, and one kind and one not

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What would probably happen if Leila kept going to Dad every time Mum said no?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Leila, Mum · **What happens:** happen, keep, go, say · **To what, where:** Dad, no · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 of lesson 496 «Parents who row, and one kind and one not» 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/496-parents-who-row-and-one-kind-and-one-not/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:496-parents-who-row-and-one-kind-and-one-not:t4:1
# text = What would probably happen if Leila kept going to Dad every time Mum said no?
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	Leila	Leila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Dad	Dad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	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 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Leila |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | Leila *not said here* |  | Dad |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to dad=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mum | no |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic |

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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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Mum would start buying all the treats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:496-parents-who-row-and-one-kind-and-one-not:t4:o1:1
# text = Mum would start buying all the treats
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	buying	buy	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	treats	treat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | would | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **buy** | gerund | Mum *not said here* | all treats |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treat=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nothing at all, it never matters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:496-parents-who-row-and-one-kind-and-one-not:t4:o2:1
# text = Nothing at all, it never matters
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **matter** | present | Nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mum and Dad would never row again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:496-parents-who-row-and-one-kind-and-one-not:t4:o3:1
# text = Mum and Dad would never row again
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	row	row	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **row** | would | Mum and Dad |  |  |  | again |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
More rows between Mum and Dad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:496-parents-who-row-and-one-kind-and-one-not:t4:o4:1
# text = More rows between Mum and Dad
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	between	between	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Dad	dad	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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**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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