Test 3 · ★★ · Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer

What would happen to a story with no tension at all?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 54 «Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer» 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	to	to	ADP	_	6 story	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 tension	case
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 tension	det
9	tension	tension	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 tension	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a story; with no tension at all	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

It would get a twist all by itself

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 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 twist	det
5	twist	twist	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	3 get	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 itself	case
8	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	It	a twist				by twist; all property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer twist=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Readers might lose interest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Readers	reader	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lose	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	might	Readers	interest					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Eventuality

Option 3

It would be more exciting to read

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	5 exciting	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 exciting	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 exciting	cop
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 exciting	advmod
5	exciting	exciting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 read	mark
7	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 exciting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					exciting property	tree rules
2	read	to-infinitive							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It would turn into a poem instead

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 poem	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 poem	det
6	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 turn	advmod

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

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