Test 8 · Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report

What would happen if the hedgehog report had no headings and no glossary?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hedgehog report · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: headings

This is test 8 of lesson 23 «Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report» 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 had	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 report	det
6	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 report	compound
7	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 headings	det
10	headings	heading	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 glossary	cc
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 glossary	det
13	glossary	glossary	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 headings	conj
14	?	?	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 hedgehog report	no headings and no glossary					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heading=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 · ← Mova's choice

Hedgehogs would stop hibernating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	hibernating	hibernate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	Hedgehogs						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	hibernate	gerund	Hedgehogs not said here						vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location

Option 2

Nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Facts and hard words would be harder to find

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 harder	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 words	cc
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 words	amod
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Facts	conj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 harder	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 harder	cop
7	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 find	mark
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 harder	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Facts and hard words					hard property	tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive	Facts and hard words not said here						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It would be easier to read

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 easier	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 easier	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 easier	cop
4	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 read	mark
6	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 easier	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					easy property	tree rules
2	read	to-infinitive							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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