Test 4 · ★★ · Building tension and suspense

What would happen if a TV series answered every mystery at the end of each episode?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: TV series · What happens: happen, answer · To what, where: mystery, end

This is test 4 · ★★ 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

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 answered	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 series	det
6	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 series	compound
7	series	series	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	nsubj
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 mystery	det
10	mystery	mystery	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 end	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 end	det
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 episode	case
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 episode	det
16	episode	episode	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 end	nmod
17	?	?	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	answer speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	a TV series	every mystery			at the end of each episode		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mystery=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 · ← Mova's choice

Viewers would watch even more episodes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Viewers	viewer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 watch	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 watch	aux
3	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 episodes	amod
6	episodes	episode	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 watch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	would	Viewers	more episodes					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent episode=Theme

Option 2

Every episode would end on a cliffhanger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 episode	det
2	episode	episode	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 end	aux
4	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 cliffhanger	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cliffhanger	det
7	cliffhanger	cliffhanger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	would	every episode			a cliffhanger			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Viewers would have less reason to come back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Viewers	viewer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 reason	amod
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 come	mark
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 reason	acl
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	Viewers	less reason					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
2	come back	to-infinitive	Viewers not said here	less reason not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The series would become a quiz show

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 series	det
2	series	series	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 show	det
6	quiz	quiz	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 show	compound
7	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	the series	a quiz show					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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