Test 5 · Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check

What would happen if the check had only real words?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: check · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: real words

This is test 5 of lesson 2 «Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check» 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 had	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 check	det
6	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 words	advmod
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 words	amod
10	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	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	have a condition, not said to happen	past	the check	real words					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient

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 at all would change in what the check shows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 change	obl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 check	det
9	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shows	nsubj
10	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	show	present	the check						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Every child would fail, because real words are too hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fail	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fail	aux
4	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hard	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 hard	mark
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 words	amod
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hard	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hard	cop
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 hard	advmod
11	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fail	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail	would	every child						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	real words					hard property	tree rules

Option 3

The check would take twice as long for each child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 check	det
2	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 take	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 take	advmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 child	case
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 child	det
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	would	the check					for each child; long, twice property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for child=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Children could pass by remembering words instead of reading them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pass	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pass	aux
3	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 words	case
5	remembering	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 words	amod
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pass	obl
7	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	9 reading	mark
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 instead	fixed
9	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 pass	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 reading	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pass	could	Children		by remembering words	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by word=Location
2	remember	gerund				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	read	gerund	Children not said here	Children = child		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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