Test 4 · Planning before writing

What would happen if Kai used a story mountain for his shark facts?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kai · What happens: happen, use · To what, where: story mountain

This is test 4 of lesson 39 «Planning before writing» 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	_	6 used	mark
5	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 used	nsubj
6	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mountain	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mountain	compound
9	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 used	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 facts	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 facts	nmod:poss
12	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 facts	compound
13	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 mountain	nmod
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	use a condition, not said to happen	past	Kai	a story mountain				for Kai's shark facts	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme for fact=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

It would be the perfect plan for any set of facts

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 plan	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 plan	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 plan	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 plan	det
5	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 plan	amod
6	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 set	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 set	det
9	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plan	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 facts	case
11	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 set	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	It	the perfect plan				for any set of facts	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would fit badly; facts suit a mind map

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 fit	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fit	aux
3	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 fit	advmod
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 suit	punct
6	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 suit	nsubj
7	suit	suit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fit	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 map	det
9	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 map	compound
10	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 suit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	would	It					badly property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	suit	present	facts	a mind map					tree rules

Option 3

The sharks would have to fight a big battle in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sharks	det
2	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fight	mark
6	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 battle	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 battle	amod
9	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fight	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fight	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	the sharks						tree rules
2	fight	to-infinitive	the sharks not said here	a big battle		battle			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Co-Agent

Option 4

Nothing, because all plans are exactly the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 same	mark
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 plans	det
5	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 same	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 same	cop
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	9 same	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 same	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	all plans					exactly, same property	tree rules

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