Test 6 · Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home

What would probably happen if Ollie read only books with five tricky words on every page?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ollie · What happens: happen, read · To what, where: books

This is test 6 of lesson 16 «Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home» 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	4 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 happen	advmod
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 read	mark
6	Ollie	Ollie	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 read	nsubj
7	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 books	advmod
9	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 read	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 words	case
11	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 words	nummod
12	tricky	tricky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 words	amod
13	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 read	obl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 page	case
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 page	det
16	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 words	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						probably property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	read a condition, not said to happen	past	Ollie	books				with five tricky words on every page	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

He'd get stuck and stop enjoying reading

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stop	cc
6	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 get	conj
7	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stop	xcomp
8	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 enjoying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	would	He		stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	stop	present	He not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	enjoy	gerund	He not said here	reading		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reading=Stimulus

Option 2

He'd become a free reader by next week, because hard books are quicker

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 become	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 reader	det
5	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reader	amod
6	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 week	case
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 week	amod
9	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 quicker	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 quicker	mark
12	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 books	amod
13	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 quicker	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 quicker	cop
15	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 become	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	He	a free reader			week		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	hard books					quick property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He'd learn to read twice as fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 learn	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 learn	aux
3	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 read	mark
5	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 learn	xcomp
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 read	advmod
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 fast	advmod
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 read	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	He						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	read	to-infinitive	He not said here					fast, twice property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nothing, hard books are always best

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 hard	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 books	amod
4	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 best	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 best	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 best	advmod
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	hard books					always, good property	tree rules

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