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title: What would most likely happen if Corey had punched the boy? — «Where's your dad?»: questions and cru… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would most likely happen if Corey had punched the boy? Test 2 · ★★ of lesson 524 ««Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes» 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 2 · ★★ · «Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes

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What would most likely happen if Corey had punched the boy?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Corey · **What happens:** happen, punch · **To what, where:** boy

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This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 524 ««Where's your dad?»: questions and cruel jokes» 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/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes:t2:1
# text = What would most likely happen if Corey had punched the boy?
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	Corey	Corey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	punched	punch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	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 | **punch** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Corey | the boy |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient |

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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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Mr Hassan would give Corey a prize

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes:t2:o1:1
# text = Mr Hassan would give Corey a prize
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Hassan	Hassan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Corey	Corey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	iobj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | would | Mr | a prize | Corey |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent corey=Recipient prize=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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The boy would say sorry at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes:t2:o2:1
# text = The boy would say sorry at once
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | the boy | sorry |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The teasing would stop forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes:t2:o3:1
# text = The teasing would stop forever
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	teasing	teasing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | the teasing |  |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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

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Corey would be in trouble too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes:t2:o4:1
# text = Corey would be in trouble too
1	Corey	Corey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Corey |  |  | trouble |  |  | tree rules |

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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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