Test 8 · ★ · The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines

★ What would happen if you panicked at every «storm of the century» headline?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, you · What happens: happen, panic · To what, where: headline

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 47 «The best ever and shocking: adverts and headlines» 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 happen	nsubj
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happen	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 panicked	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 panicked	nsubj
7	panicked	panic	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 storm	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 storm	det
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 storm	punct
11	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 headline	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 century	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 century	det
14	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 headline	obl
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 century	punct
16	headline	headline	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 panicked	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 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	panic a condition, not said to happen	past	you	headline					vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headline=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 · ← Mova's choice

Newspapers would stop writing headlines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 headlines	compound
5	headlines	headline	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	Newspapers	writing headlines					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality headline=Eventuality

Option 2

You would never see a storm again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 storm	det
6	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	would	You	a storm			again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer storm=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

You'd panic several times a year over ordinary storms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 panic	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 panic	aux
3	panic	panic	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 times	amod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 panic	obl:unmarked
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 times	nmod:unmarked
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 storms	case
9	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 storms	amod
10	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 panic	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	panic	would	You			ordinary storms	time		vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

You would be safe from every storm for ever, because you'd always be ready

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 safe	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 safe	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 safe	cop
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 storm	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 storm	det
7	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 safe	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 ever	case
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 safe	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ready	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 ready	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 ready	nsubj
13	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 ready	aux
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 ready	advmod
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 ready	cop
16	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 safe	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	You			every storm		safe property	tree rules
2	is	would	you					always, ready property	tree rules

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