Test 8 · ★ · Reading a story: characters, plot and setting

What would happen to a story with no problem in the middle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: happen

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 22 «Reading a story: characters, plot and setting» 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	to	to	ADP	_	6 story	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 problem	case
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 problem	det
9	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 middle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 middle	det
12	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 problem	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a story; with no problem in the middle	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 right answer

Not much would happen, so it might be dull

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADV	_	4 happen	advmod
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
4	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dull	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 dull	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dull	nsubj
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 dull	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 dull	cop
10	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 happen	conj

#	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	is	might	it					dull property	tree rules

Option 2

It would be more exciting than any other kind of story

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	5 exciting	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 exciting	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 exciting	cop
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 exciting	advmod
5	exciting	exciting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	9 kind	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 kind	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kind	amod
9	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 exciting	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 story	case
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					than any other kind of story; exciting property	tree rules

Option 3

It would have no setting

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 setting	det
5	setting	setting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj

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

Option 4

It couldn't have characters

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	4 have	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	could	It	characters					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=Patient

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