Test 10 · ★★ · Famous paintings and the stories behind them

What would happen if Ethan spent only two seconds on a Bruegel?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ethan · What happens: happen, spend · To what, where: Bruegel

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 15 «Famous paintings and the stories behind them» 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 spent	mark
5	Ethan	Ethan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 spent	nsubj
6	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 two	advmod
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 seconds	nummod
9	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spent	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 Bruegel	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 Bruegel	det
12	Bruegel	Bruegel	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 spent	obl
13	?	?	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	spend a condition, not said to happen	past	Ethan				second	on a Bruegel goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent on bruegel=Goal

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 · ← Mova's choice

He would see everything at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 see	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	would	He	everything					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He would miss most of its little stories

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 miss	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 miss	aux
3	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 miss	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 stories	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 stories	nmod:poss
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stories	amod
8	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 most	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	would	He	most of its little stories					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer most=Stimulus

Option 3

The painting would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 painting	det
2	painting	painting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 change	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 change	aux
4	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	the painting						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He would find the fallen man straight away, without looking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 find	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obj
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	3 find	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 looking	punct
10	without	without	SCONJ	_	11 looking	mark
11	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 find	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	would	He	the fallen man	away property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic
2	fall	participle				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	gerund	He not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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