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title: What would most likely happen if Craig kept making new rules without… — The parent who left, and a new partner · tree and pragmatics
description: What would most likely happen if Craig kept making new rules without Mum? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 517 «The parent who left, and a new partner» 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 · ★ · The parent who left, and a new partner

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What would most likely happen if Craig kept making new rules without Mum?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Craig · **What happens:** happen, keep, make · **To what, where:** new rules

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 517 «The parent who left, and a new partner» 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/517-the-parent-who-left-and-a-new-partner/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:517-the-parent-who-left-and-a-new-partner:t4:1
# text = What would most likely happen if Craig kept making new rules without Mum?
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	Craig	Craig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	without	without	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	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 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Craig |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | Craig *not said here* | new rules |  |  |  | without Mum | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rule=Product |

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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 hand the whole house to Craig

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:517-the-parent-who-left-and-a-new-partner:t4:o1:1
# text = Mum would hand the whole house to Craig
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hand	hand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Craig	Craig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hand** | would | Mum | the whole house | Craig |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme to craig=Destination |

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

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More rows, and Zane would feel even worse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:517-the-parent-who-left-and-a-new-partner:t4:o2:1
# text = More rows, and Zane would feel even worse
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	Zane	Zane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | would | Zane | More rows *not said here* |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, new partners always make the rules

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:517-the-parent-who-left-and-a-new-partner:t4:o3:1
# text = Nothing, new partners always make the rules
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	partners	partner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Nothing | the rules |  |  |  | always *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material rule=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Zane would soon love the rules and Craig

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:517-the-parent-who-left-and-a-new-partner:t4:o4:1
# text = Zane would soon love the rules and Craig
1	Zane	Zane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Craig	Craig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | would | Zane | the rules |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rule=Stimulus |

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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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