Test 4 · Editing and redrafting

What would happen if Ruby never read her work aloud?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ruby · What happens: happen, not read, work · To what, where: work

This is test 4 of lesson 43 «Editing and redrafting» 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	_	7 read	mark
5	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 read	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 read	advmod
7	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 work	nmod:poss
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 read	obj
10	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	7 read	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not read a condition, not said to happen	past	Ruby	Ruby's work	aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Topic
3	work		Ruby			nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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

Teachers would stop reading them at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reading	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	Teachers			all			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	read	gerund	Teachers not said here	Teachers = teacher					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

Option 2

Her stories would always come out perfect

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 stories	nmod:poss
2	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 come	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	would	Her stories					always, out, perfect property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She might miss small gaps and slips

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 miss	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 miss	aux
3	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gaps	amod
5	gaps	gap	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 miss	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 slips	cc
7	slips	slip	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gaps	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	might	She	small gaps and slips					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gap=Stimulus

Option 4

Her spelling would improve on its own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 spelling	nmod:poss
2	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 improve	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 improve	aux
4	improve	improve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 own	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 own	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 improve	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	improve	would	Her spelling			spelling's own			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	spell		Her = she						nom spelling «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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