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title: What would happen if Kai used a story mountain for his shark facts? — Planning before writing · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if Kai used a story mountain for his shark facts? Test 4 of lesson 39 «Planning before writing» 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 4 · Planning before writing

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What would happen if Kai used a story mountain for his shark facts?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Kai · **What happens:** happen, use · **To what, where:** story mountain

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This is test 4 of lesson 39 «Planning before writing» 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/39-planning-before-writing/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:39-planning-before-writing:t4:1
# text = What would happen if Kai used a story mountain for his shark facts?
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	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	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 | **use** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Kai | a story mountain |  |  |  | for Kai's shark facts | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme for fact=Eventuality |

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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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It would be the perfect plan for any set of facts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:39-planning-before-writing:t4:o1:1
# text = It would be the perfect plan for any set of facts
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would | It | the perfect plan |  |  |  | for any set of facts | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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It would fit badly; facts suit a mind map

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:39-planning-before-writing:t4:o2:1
# text = It would fit badly; facts suit a mind map
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	suit	suit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fit** | would | It |  |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **suit** | present | facts | a mind map |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The sharks would have to fight a big battle in it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:39-planning-before-writing:t4:o3:1
# text = The sharks would have to fight a big battle in it
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | the sharks |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fight** | to-infinitive | the sharks *not said here* | a big battle |  | battle |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Co-Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nothing, because all plans are exactly the same

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:39-planning-before-writing:t4:o4:1
# text = Nothing, because all plans are exactly the same
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | all plans |  |  |  |  | exactly, same *property* | tree rules |

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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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