Test 4 · ★★★ · Grammar puzzles, part two

What would happen if a pangram left out the letter z?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: pangram · What happens: happen, leave out · To what, where: pangram, letter z

This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 36 «Grammar puzzles, part two» of the language 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 pangram	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pangram	det
6	pangram	pangram	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 pangram	acl
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 left	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 z	det
10	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 z	compound
11	z	z	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would		a pangram					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave out	participle	a pangram not said here	the letter z					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

It would no longer be a pangram

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	2 would	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	ADV	_	4 longer	advmod
4	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 pangram	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 pangram	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pangram	det
7	pangram	pangram	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 would	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	infinitive		a pangram				long property	tree rules

Option 2

It would still be a pangram, z doesn't count

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	6 pangram	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 pangram	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	6 pangram	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 pangram	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pangram	det
6	pangram	pangram	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pangram	punct
8	z	z	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pangram	conj
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 count	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 count	advmod
11	count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 pangram	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	It	a pangram and z			still		tree rules
2	not count	present · do-support							vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

It would become an isogram

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 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 isogram	det
5	isogram	isogram	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	It	a isogram					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

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

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