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title: What would happen if the check had only real words? — Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 ch… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if the check had only real words? Test 5 of lesson 2 «Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check» 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 right.
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# Test 5 · Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check

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What would happen if the check had only real words?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** check · **What happens:** happen, have · **To what, where:** real words

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This is test 5 of lesson 2 «Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check» 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/2-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:2-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check:t5:1
# text = What would happen if the check had only real words?
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	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	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 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the check | real words |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |

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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 {#o1}

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Nothing at all would change in what the check shows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:2-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check:t5:o1:1
# text = Nothing at all would change in what the check shows
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | would | Nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **show** | present | the check |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Every child would fail, because real words are too hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:2-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check:t5:o2:1
# text = Every child would fail, because real words are too hard
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fail** | would | every child |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | real words |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The check would take twice as long for each child

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:2-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check:t5:o3:1
# text = The check would take twice as long for each child
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | would | the check |  |  |  |  | for each child; long, twice *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for child=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Children could pass by remembering words instead of reading them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:2-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check:t5:o4:1
# text = Children could pass by remembering words instead of reading them
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	remembering	remember	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	9	mark	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | could | Children |  |  |  |  | by remembering words | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by word=Location |
| 2 | **remember** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **read** | gerund | Children *not said here* | Children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |

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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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