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title: What would happen if Lucas learned five words a night and reviewed o… — How to learn spellings that stick · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if Lucas learned five words a night and reviewed old ones? Test 4 of lesson 15 «How to learn spellings that stick» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 4 · How to learn spellings that stick

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What would happen if Lucas learned five words a night and reviewed old ones?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Lucas · **What happens:** happen, learn, review · **To what, where:** five words, old ones

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This is test 4 of lesson 15 «How to learn spellings that stick» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick:t4:1
# text = What would happen if Lucas learned five words a night and reviewed old ones?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	Lucas	Lucas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	reviewed	review	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 | **learn** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Lucas | five words |  |  | night |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 3 | **review** | past | Lucas *not said here* | old ones |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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He'd remember more of them for longer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick:t4:o1:1
# text = He'd remember more of them for longer
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | would | He | more of them |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent more=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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He'd learn fewer words in total

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick:t4:o2:1
# text = He'd learn fewer words in total
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | would | He | fewer words |  | total |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing different from cramming

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick:t4:o3:1
# text = Nothing different from cramming
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
3	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	cramming	cram	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cram** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He would forget them all faster, because old words get in the way of new ones

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick:t4:o4:1
# text = He would forget them all faster, because old words get in the way of new ones
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | would | He | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | present | old words |  |  | the way of new ones |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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**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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