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title: What would happen to a non-fiction page about volcanoes if all the h… — Author's choices: why this word, why t… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to a non-fiction page about volcanoes if all the headings and bullet points were removed? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 21 «Author's choices: why this word, why this way» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 8 · ★★ · Author's choices: why this word, why this way

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What would happen to a non-fiction page about volcanoes if all the headings and bullet points were removed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** happen, remove · **To what, where:** headings

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This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 21 «Author's choices: why this word, why this way» 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/21-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:21-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way:t8:1
# text = What would happen to a non-fiction page about volcanoes if all the headings and bullet points were removed?
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	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	non-fiction	non-fiction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	headings	heading	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	bullet	bullet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	removed	remove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | to a non-fiction page about volcanoes | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **remove** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | all headings and bullet points |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=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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Facts would be harder to find

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:21-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way:t8:o1:1
# text = Facts would be harder to find
1	Facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Facts |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | Facts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, layout never matters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:21-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way:t8:o2:1
# text = Nothing, layout never matters
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	layout	layout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	matters	matter	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **matter** | present | Nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The facts would become untrue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:21-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way:t8:o3:1
# text = The facts would become untrue
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	untrue	untrue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | would | the facts |  |  |  |  | untrue *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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It would be easier to read

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:21-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way:t8:o4:1
# text = It would be easier to read
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | It |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **read** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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