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title: What would happen if every verb became regular? — Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if every verb became regular? Test 5 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes» of the language 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 5 · ★★ · Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes

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What would happen if every verb became regular?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** verb · **What happens:** happen, become

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes» of the language 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/language/9-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:9-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes:t5:1
# text = What would happen if every verb became regular?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	verb	verb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **become** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | every verb |  |  |  |  | regular *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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English would lose its past tense

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:9-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes:t5:o1:1
# text = English would lose its past tense
1	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tense	tense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | would | English | its past tense |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tense=Eventuality |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Every verb would end in -ought

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:9-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes:t5:o2:1
# text = Every verb would end in -ought
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	verb	verb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing at all, because verbs never really change their forms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:9-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes:t5:o3:1
# text = Nothing at all, because verbs never really change their forms
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	verbs	verb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	really	really	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **change** | infinitive | verbs | verbs's forms |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Patient |
| 2 | **form** |  | verbs *= verb* |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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

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We'd say "goed" and "thinked", and the old forms would vanish

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:9-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes:t5:o4:1
# text = We'd say "goed" and "thinked", and the old forms would vanish
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	goed	goed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	thinked	thinke	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	vanish	vanish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would | We | goed |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goed=Topic |
| 2 | **thinke** *in a quote* | participle | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **vanish** | would | the old forms |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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