Test 3 · ★ · SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper

What would happen if you put "The cat chased the mouse" into the passive but changed the tense by mistake?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, cat · What happens: happen, put, chase, change · To what, where: mouse, passive, tense · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 52 «SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper» 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 put	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 put	nsubj
6	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 chased	punct
8	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cat	det
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chased	nsubj
10	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 put	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mouse	det
12	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chased	obj
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 mouse	punct
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 passive	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 passive	det
16	passive	passive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 chased	obl
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 changed	cc
18	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 chased	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tense	det
20	tense	tense	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 changed	obj
21	by	by	ADP	_	22 mistake	case
22	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 changed	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put a condition, not said to happen	present	you				tree rules
3	chase in a quote	past	the cat	the mouse	the passive		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme into passive=Trajectory
4	change	past	the cat not said here	the tense		by mistake	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tense=Patient

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

Nothing, as the tense never matters at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 matters	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 matters	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tense	det
5	tense	tense	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 matters	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 matters	advmod
7	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	parataxis
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 matters	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present	the tense			all			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

You might write "is chased" and lose the mark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 write	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 write	aux
3	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 write	punct
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 chased	aux:pass
6	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 write	conj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 chased	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lose	cc
9	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 write	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mark	det
11	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	write	might	You		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	chase in a quote	present · passive	You not said here		vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»
3	lose	infinitive	You not said here	the mark	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It would turn into a question, not a sentence

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 question	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 question	det
6	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sentence	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 sentence	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sentence	det
10	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

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

Option 4

It would turn into a fronted adverbial

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	_	7 adverbial	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 adverbial	det
6	fronted	front	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 adverbial	amod
7	adverbial	adverbial	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It			a fronted adverbial			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into adverbial=Trajectory
2	front	participle							tree rules

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