Test 5 · ★★ · Words to know, Years 5–6 (the statutory list, by idea)

What would happen if you only practised list words in a spelling test, never in writing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, practise · To what, where: writing, list words, spelling test

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 14 «Words to know, Years 5–6 (the statutory list, by idea)» of the English 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 practised	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 practised	nsubj
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 practised	advmod
7	practised	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 words	compound
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 practised	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 test	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 test	det
12	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 test	compound
13	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 practised	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 writing	punct
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 writing	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 writing	case
17	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				writing			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in writing=Location
2	practise a condition, not said to happen	past	you	list words		a spelling test			tree rules

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

Option 1

Nothing, tests and writing are the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 same	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tests	punct
3	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nothing	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 writing	cc
5	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tests	conj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 same	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 same	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					same property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

You'd use them perfectly in every letter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 use	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 use	aux
3	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 use	obj
5	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	3 use	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 letter	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 letter	det
8	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 use	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	would	You	them = they		every letter		perfectly property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

You might spell them in tests but not use them well in writing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 spell	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 spell	aux
3	spell	spell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spell	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 tests	case
6	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spell	obl
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 use	cc
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 use	advmod
9	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 spell	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 use	obj
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 use	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 writing	case
13	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 use	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spell	might	You	them = they		tests			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent they=Theme in test=Manner
2	not use	infinitive	You not said here	tests = test		writing		well property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

You would forget how to read them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 forget	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 forget	aux
3	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 read	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 read	mark
6	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forget	xcomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	would	You						tree rules
2	not read	to-infinitive	You not said here	them = they					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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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