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Test 3 · ★★ · Building tension and suspense

In a cartoon, the villain explains his whole secret plan to the hero before doing anything. What does it do to the suspense?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: villain, hero, plan · What happens: explain, do, plan · To what, where: whole secret plan, hero, cartoon, anything

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 42 «Building tension and suspense» 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

Sentence 1: In a cartoon, the villain explains his whole secret plan to the hero before doing anything.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 explains	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 villain	det
6	villain	villain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 explains	nsubj
7	explains	explain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 plan	nmod:poss
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 plan	amod
10	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 plan	amod
11	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 explains	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 hero	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hero	det
14	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 plan	nmod
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 doing	mark
16	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 hero	acl
17	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 doing	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 explains	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explain speech: assert	present	the villain	villain's whole secret plan	the hero	a cartoon			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent plan=Topic to hero=Recipient
2	do	gerund	the hero not said here	anything					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
3	plan		villain					to the hero	nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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.

Sentence 2: What does it do to the suspense?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 suspense	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 suspense	det
7	suspense	suspense	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · do-support	plan					to the suspense	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It drains it, as nothing is left to guess

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	2 drains	nsubj
2	drains	drain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drains	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 left	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 left	mark
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 left	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 left	aux:pass
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 drains	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 guess	mark
10	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 left	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drain	present	It	it					vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent it=Source
2	leave	present · passive		nothing					tree rules
3	guess	to-infinitive	nothing not said here						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It makes the whole story much more tense and scary

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 tense	advmod
8	tense	tense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 scary	cc
10	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tense	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the whole story					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material story=Product

Option 3

It makes the villain far more mysterious than before

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 villain	det
4	villain	villain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 mysterious	advmod
7	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 before	case
9	before	before	ADV	_	7 mysterious	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the villain				mysterious property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material villain=Product

Option 4

It turns the cartoon into a cliffhanger

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	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cartoon	det
4	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 cliffhanger	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cliffhanger	det
7	cliffhanger	cliffhanger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	It	the cartoon		a cliffhanger			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cartoon=Theme into cliffhanger=Trajectory

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