Test 8 · ★ · Fronted adverbials

What would happen if every sentence in a story started «Then,»?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sentence · What happens: happen, start

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 29 «Fronted adverbials» 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	_	10 started	mark
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 sentence	det
6	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 started	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 story	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 story	det
9	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sentence	nmod
10	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 Then	punct
12	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 started	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Then	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 started	punct
15	?	?	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	start a condition, not said to happen	past	every sentence in a story				then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

The story would sound repetitive and clunky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sound	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sound	aux
4	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	repetitive	repetitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sound	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 clunky	cc
7	clunky	clunky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 repetitive	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	would	the story					repetitive property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would turn into a poem

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 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 poem	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 poem	det
6	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It			a poem			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into poem=Trajectory

Option 3

Readers would learn lots of new words from every page

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Readers	reader	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 learn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 learn	aux
3	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 learn	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 words	case
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 words	amod
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lots	nmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 page	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 page	det
10	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 learn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	Readers	lots of new words		every page			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent lot=Topic from page=Source

Option 4

The story would sound exciting and varied

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sound	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sound	aux
4	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	exciting	exciting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sound	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 varied	cc
7	varied	varied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 exciting	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	would	the story					exciting property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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