Test 9 · ★ · Prediction: what happens next

What would happen if a story always did exactly what you predicted?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: story, you · What happens: happen, do, predict

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 19 «Prediction: what happens next» 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	_	8 did	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 did	nsubj
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 did	advmod
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	10 what	advmod
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 did	obj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 predicted	nsubj
12	predicted	predict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 what	acl:relcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do a condition, not said to happen	past	a story	always property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	predict	participle	you		vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot

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

It would have no words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 words	det
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	It	no words					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It might feel boring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 feel	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	aux
3	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	might	It					boring property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

You couldn't read it at all, because the words would vanish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 read	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 read	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 read	advmod
4	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 read	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 read	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 vanish	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 vanish	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 words	det
11	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 vanish	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 vanish	aux
13	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 read	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not read	could	You	it		all			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent it=Theme at all=Value
2	vanish	would	the words						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It would win every prize

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 win	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 win	aux
3	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 prize	det
5	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 win	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	would	It	every prize					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Eventuality

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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