Test 4 · ★ · Describing: senses, showing and precise words

What would happen if a story only described what things look like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: story, things · What happens: happen, describe, look

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 41 «Describing: senses, showing and precise 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	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 described	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 described	nsubj
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 described	advmod
8	described	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 described	obj
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 look	nsubj
11	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 what	acl:relcl
12	like	like	ADP	_	11 look	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	happen	would		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	describe a condition, not said to happen	past	a story	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent what=Theme
3	look	present	things	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

It would miss the sounds, smells and feelings

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 miss	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 miss	aux
3	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sounds	det
5	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 miss	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 smells	punct
7	smells	smell	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sounds	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 feelings	cc
9	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sounds	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	would	It	the sounds and smells and feelings					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would be the most vivid story ever written

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	7 story	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 story	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 story	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 vivid	advmod
6	vivid	vivid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 story	amod
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 written	advmod
9	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 story	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	It	the vivid story					tree rules
2	write	participle		the vivid story not said here			ever		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

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 4

Readers would not be able to see anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Readers	reader	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 able	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 able	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 able	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 able	cop
5	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 able	xcomp
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	would	Readers					able property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	Readers not said here	anything					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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