Test 2 · ★ · Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you really see

What would happen if Sophie drew the far end of the road just as wide as the near end?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sophie · What happens: happen, draw · To what, where: far end

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 12 «Drawing: lines, shapes and drawing what you really see» of the arts 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 drew	mark
5	Sophie	Sophie	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 drew	nsubj
6	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
8	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 end	amod
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drew	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 road	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 road	det
12	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 end	nmod
13	just	just	ADV	_	15 wide	advmod
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 wide	advmod
15	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 drew	ccomp
16	as	as	ADP	_	19 end	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 end	det
18	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 end	amod
19	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wide	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	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	draw a condition, not said to happen	past	Sophie	the far end of the road					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme

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

Option 1

Nothing would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The road would look flat instead of going into the distance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 road	det
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 look	aux
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp
6	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	8 going	mark
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 instead	fixed
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 look	advcl
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 distance	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 distance	det
11	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	would	the road					flat property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	go	gerund	the road not said here					into the distance	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into distance=Initial_Location

Option 3

The road would look even deeper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 road	det
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 look	aux
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 deeper	advmod
6	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	would	the road					deep property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

The road would look like it is going uphill on purpose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 road	det
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 look	aux
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	8 going	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 going	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 going	aux
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 look	advcl
9	uphill	uphill	ADV	_	8 going	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 purpose	case
11	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	would	the road						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	go	present · progressive	road			purpose		uphill property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on purpose=Location

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