--- title: Which sentence is the strongest order? — Active and passive voice, modal verbs · tree and pragmatics description: Which sentence is the strongest order? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 32 «Active and passive voice, modal verbs» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/t10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/) / [Active and passive voice, modal verbs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★★ · Active and passive voice, modal verbs Which sentence is the strongest order? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sentence · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** strongest order This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 32 «Active and passive voice, modal verbs» 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/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs:t10:1 # text = Which sentence is the strongest order? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 strongest strong ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 6 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | which sentence | the strongest order | | | | | tree rules | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} You might leave now. ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs:t10:o1:1 # text = You might leave now. 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | might | You | | | | now | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} You could leave now. ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs:t10:o2:1 # text = You could leave now. 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | could | You | | | | now | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} You may leave now. ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs:t10:o3:1 # text = You may leave now. 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | may | You | | | | now | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} You must leave now. ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs:t10:o4:1 # text = You must leave now. 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | must | You | | | | now | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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. 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