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title: What would happen if we stopped doubling: «hoping» for both hope and… — Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and drop… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if we stopped doubling: «hoping» for both hope and hop? Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e» 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 · ★★ · Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e

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What would happen if we stopped doubling: «hoping» for both hope and hop?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** we · **What happens:** happen, stop, double, hope

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This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e» 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/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e:t4:1
# text = What would happen if we stopped doubling: «hoping» for both hope and hop?
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	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	doubling	double	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	hop	hop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	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 | **stop** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **double** | gerund | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **hope** *in a quote* | gerund | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for both hope and hop | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for hope=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 {#o1}

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Every word would get shorter and clearer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e:t4:o1:1
# text = Every word would get shorter and clearer
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	shorter	short	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	clearer	clear	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | every word |  |  |  |  | short *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The words would sound different but look the same

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e:t4:o2:1
# text = The words would sound different but look the same
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | would | the words |  |  |  |  | different *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **look** | present | the words *not said here* | the same |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Readers could not tell hoping from hopping

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e:t4:o3:1
# text = Readers could not tell hoping from hopping
1	Readers	reader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	ccomp	_	_
6	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	hopping	hop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | could | Readers |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hope** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **hop** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing, readers would always know

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e:t4:o4:1
# text = Nothing, readers would always know
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	readers	reader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | would | readers |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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