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title: What would most likely happen if Oskar stopped messaging his cousins… — Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far a… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would most likely happen if Oskar stopped messaging his cousins in Poland for years? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 510 «Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away» 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 wa
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# Test 8 · ★ · Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away

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What would most likely happen if Oskar stopped messaging his cousins in Poland for years?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Oskar · **What happens:** happen, stop, message · **To what, where:** cousins, Poland

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 510 «Cousins: like a sister, posh, or far away» 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/510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away:t8:1
# text = What would most likely happen if Oskar stopped messaging his cousins in Poland for years?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	Oskar	Oskar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	messaging	message	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Poland	Poland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Oskar |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **message** | gerund | Oskar *not said here* | Oskar's cousins |  | Poland | year |  | tree rules |

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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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They'd become closer than ever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away:t8:o1:1
# text = They'd become closer than ever
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | would | They |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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

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They might drift apart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away:t8:o2:1
# text = They might drift apart
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	drift	drift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drift apart** | might | They |  |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They'd forget Polish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away:t8:o3:1
# text = They'd forget Polish
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	Polish	polish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing would ever change

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:510-cousins-like-a-sister-posh-or-far-away:t8:o4:1
# text = Nothing would ever change
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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