Test 8 · ★★ · Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries

What would happen to a newspaper article with no quotes from anyone?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: happen · To what, where: anyone

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 24 «Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries» 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	_	7 article	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 article	det
6	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 article	compound
7	article	article	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 quotes	case
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 quotes	det
10	quotes	quote	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 article	nmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 anyone	case
12	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 happen	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				anyone		to a newspaper article with no quotes	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

It might feel less real and harder to trust

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	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 real	advmod
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feel	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 harder	cc
7	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 real	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 trust	mark
9	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 harder	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	might	It					real property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	trust	to-infinitive							vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It would become a diary

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 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 diary	det
5	diary	diary	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	It	a diary					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It would be against the law

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	6 law	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 law	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 law	cop
4	against	against	ADP	_	6 law	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 law	det
6	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					against the law	tree rules

Option 4

It would be longer

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 longer	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 longer	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 longer	cop
4	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					long property	tree rules

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