Test 9 · Vocabulary in context

What would happen if you stopped reading every time you met a new word?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, stop, read, meet · To what, where: new word

This is test 9 of lesson 20 «Vocabulary in context» 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	_	6 stopped	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 stopped	nsubj
6	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stopped	xcomp
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reading	obj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 met	nsubj
11	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 time	acl:relcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 word	det
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 word	amod
14	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 met	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop a condition, not said to happen	past	you			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	read	gerund	you not said here		time	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	meet	past	you	a new word		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Co-Agent

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 · ← Mova's choice

The words would get easier on their own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 own	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 own	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the words			words's own		easy property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on own=Source

Option 2

You'd read much faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 read	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 read	aux
3	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 faster	advmod
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 read	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	would	You					fast property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Reading would be slow and you'd lose the story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 slow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 slow	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 slow	cop
4	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lose	cc
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 lose	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 lose	aux
8	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 slow	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 story	det
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	read	gerund				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	would			slow property	tree rules
3	lose	would	you	the story		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Eventuality

Option 4

You'd never meet new words again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 meet	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 meet	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 meet	advmod
4	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 meet	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 meet	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not meet	would	You	new words			again		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Co-Agent

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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