Test 2 · Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell

What would happen if Leo kept his head down and read every word?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Leo · What happens: happen, keep down, read · To what, where: head, word

This is test 2 of lesson 48 «Spoken language: presenting and show-and-tell» 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	_	6 kept	mark
5	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obj
9	down	down	ADV	_	6 kept	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 read	cc
11	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happen	conj
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 word	det
13	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 read	obj
14	?	?	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	keep down a condition, not said to happen	past	Leo	Leo's head	down property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
3	read	infinitive		every word		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

His talk would sound flat and lose the audience

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 talk	nmod:poss
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sound	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sound	aux
4	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sound	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lose	cc
7	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sound	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 audience	det
9	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sound	would	His talk		flat property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	lose	present	His talk not said here	the audience		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent audience=Eventuality
3	talk		His = he			nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

It would be shorter and therefore much better

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	4 shorter	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 shorter	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 shorter	cop
4	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 better	cc
6	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 better	advmod
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 shorter	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					short property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 3

The audience would hear him more clearly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 audience	det
2	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hear	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hear	obj
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 clearly	advmod
7	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	4 hear	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	would	the audience	him = he				clearly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 4

Everyone would listen harder, as it is correct

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 listen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 listen	aux
3	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 listen	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 correct	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 correct	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 correct	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 correct	cop
9	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 listen	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	would	Everyone					hard property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					correct property	tree rules

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