Test 4 · ★★★ · Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words

What would happen if you added "er" to "short"?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, add · To what, where: er

This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 57 «Olympiad: riddles, lipograms and hidden words» 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 added	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 added	nsubj
6	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 er	punct
8	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 added	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 er	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	12 short	mark
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 short	punct
12	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 added	advcl
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct
14	?	?	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	add speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	you	er					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent er=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

It would turn into a palindrome

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 palindrome	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 palindrome	det
6	palindrome	palindrome	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would make a word with fewer letters

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 make	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 word	det
5	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 letters	case
7	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 letters	amod
8	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	It	a word				with fewer letters	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material word=Product

Option 3

It would stop being a real word

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 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 word	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 word	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 word	amod
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	It						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is a	gerund		a real word					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It would make "shorter", a longer word

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 make	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 shorter	punct
5	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 make	xcomp
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 shorter	punct
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 word	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 word	det
9	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 word	amod
10	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	It	a longer word				short property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material

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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