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title: What would most likely happen if Jan had laughed at the bin bags? — Foster care · tree and pragmatics
description: What would most likely happen if Jan had laughed at the bin bags? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 521 «Foster care» 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 right.
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# Test 3 · ★ · Foster care

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What would most likely happen if Jan had laughed at the bin bags?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Jan · **What happens:** happen, laugh · **To what, where:** bin bags

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 521 «Foster care» 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/521-foster-care/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:521-foster-care:t3:1
# text = What would most likely happen if Jan had laughed at the bin bags?
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	_	9	mark	_	_
7	Jan	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 | **laugh** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Jan |  |  | the bin bags |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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Nothing, bags don't matter to kids

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:521-foster-care:t3:o1:1
# text = Nothing, bags don't matter to kids
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	matter	matter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **matter** | present · do-support | Nothing bags |  |  |  |  | to kids | vn matter-91 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to kid=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Tayla would laugh and feel at home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:521-foster-care:t3:o2:1
# text = Tayla would laugh and feel at home
1	Tayla	Tayla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | would | Tayla |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **feel** | infinitive | Tayla *not said here* |  |  | home |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Tayla would trust her straight away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:521-foster-care:t3:o3:1
# text = Tayla would trust her straight away
1	Tayla	Tayla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trust** | would | Tayla | her *= she* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Tayla would find it even harder to trust her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:521-foster-care:t3:o4:1
# text = Tayla would find it even harder to trust her
1	Tayla	Tayla	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	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | would | Tayla | it |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **trust** | to-infinitive |  | Tayla |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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