Test 4 · ★ · Tricky words and common exception words

What would probably happen if Beth kept doing an hour of flashcards a night in tears?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Beth · What happens: happen, keep, do · To what, where: tears

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 3 «Tricky words and common exception words» 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	4 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 happen	advmod
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 kept	mark
6	Beth	Beth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 kept	nsubj
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
8	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 kept	xcomp
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hour	det
10	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doing	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 flashcards	case
12	flashcards	flashcard	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hour	nmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doing	obl:unmarked
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 tears	case
16	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 doing	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				probably property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	Beth				tree rules
3	do	gerund	Beth not said here	tears	hour; night		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Nothing, how long you practise makes no difference

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 makes	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 practise	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 practise	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 practise	nsubj
6	practise	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	acl:relcl
7	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 difference	det
9	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	practise	present	you					long property	tree rules
2	make	present	Nothing	no difference					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material difference=Product

Option 2

She would learn twice as fast as other children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 learn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 learn	aux
3	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 fast	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 learn	advmod
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 children	case
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 children	amod
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fast	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	She					fast property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She'd learn less, and spelling would feel like a battle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 learn	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 learn	aux
3	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 learn	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 feel	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 feel	cc
7	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feel	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 feel	aux
9	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 learn	conj
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 battle	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 battle	det
12	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	She					less property	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feel	would	spelling					like a battle	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like battle=Theme

Option 4

She'd soon remember every tricky word in English

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 remember	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 remember	aux
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 remember	advmod
4	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 word	det
6	tricky	tricky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 word	amod
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 remember	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 English	case
9	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 word	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	would	She	every tricky word		English		soon property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme

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