Test 10 · ★★ · Active and passive voice, modal verbs

Which sentence is the strongest order?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sentence · What happens: be · To what, where: strongest order

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 32 «Active and passive voice, modal verbs» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 sentence	det
2	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 order	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 order	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 order	det
5	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 order	amod
6	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 order	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	which sentence	the strongest order					tree rules

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

You might leave now.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 leave	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 leave	aux
3	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 leave	advmod
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	might	You				now		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

You could leave now.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 leave	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 leave	aux
3	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 leave	advmod
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	could	You				now		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

You may leave now.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 leave	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 leave	aux
3	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 leave	advmod
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	may	You				now		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

You must leave now.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 leave	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 leave	aux
3	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 leave	advmod
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	must	You				now		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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