Test 5 · ★ · Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling

What would happen if Dev only ever tried the /ee/ sound for «ea»?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dev · What happens: happen, try · To what, where: ee sound

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 4 «Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling» 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	_	8 tried	mark
5	Dev	Dev	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tried	nsubj
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 tried	advmod
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 tried	advmod
8	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sound	det
10	/	/	SYM	_	11 ee	punct
11	ee	ee	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sound	compound
12	/	/	PUNCT	_	11 ee	punct
13	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tried	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 ea	case
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 ea	punct
16	ea	ea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sound	nmod
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct
18	?	?	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	try a condition, not said to happen	past	Dev	the ee sound			ever	for ea	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent sound=Theme for ea=Attribute

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, because ea only has one sound

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	_	6 has	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 has	mark
4	ea	ea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 has	advmod
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	parataxis
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 sound	nummod
8	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	ea	one sound					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He would misread words like «head» and «bread»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 misread	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 misread	aux
3	misread	misread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 misread	obj
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 head	case
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 head	punct
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 words	nmod
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 head	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bread	cc
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 bread	punct
11	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 head	conj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 misread	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	misread	would	He	words				like head and bread	tree rules

Option 3

He would read faster, because there's only one sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 read	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 read	aux
3	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 read	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 's	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 's	mark
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 's	expl
8	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 read	parataxis
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 one	advmod
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 sound	nummod
11	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 's	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	would	He					fast property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	be	present	one sound			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He would read every ea word correctly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 read	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 read	aux
3	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 word	det
5	ea	ea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 word	compound
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	obj
7	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	3 read	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	would	He	every ea word				correctly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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