Test 4 · ★ · Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is there

What would happen if a big museum let every visitor touch the paintings for 50 years?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big museum, visitor · What happens: happen, let, touch · To what, where: visitor, paintings

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 17 «Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is there» 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	_	8 let	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 museum	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 museum	amod
7	museum	museum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	nsubj
8	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happen	advcl
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 visitor	det
10	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	obj
11	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 paintings	det
13	paintings	painting	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 touch	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 years	case
15	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 touch	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	a big museum	every visitor		tree rules
3	touch	infinitive	every visitor not said here	the paintings	year	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme painting=Co-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 · ← Mova's choice

They would look brighter and cleaner than ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 look	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 look	aux
3	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 look	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cleaner	cc
6	cleaner	clean	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 brighter	conj
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 ever	case
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 brighter	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The paintings would be badly worn and damaged

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 paintings	det
2	paintings	painting	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 worn	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 worn	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 worn	aux:pass
5	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 worn	advmod
6	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 damaged	cc
8	damaged	damage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 worn	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	would · passive		the paintings				badly property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
2	damage	participle							vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nothing at all would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	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 4

The paintings would grow bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 paintings	det
2	paintings	painting	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	the paintings					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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