Test 11 · ★★ · Modern art: "my little brother could do that"

What would happen if you waited for the original banana to last for ever?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, wait, last

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 18 «Modern art: "my little brother could do that"» 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 waited	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 waited	nsubj
6	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 banana	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 banana	det
9	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 banana	amod
10	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 waited	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 last	mark
12	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 waited	advcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 ever	case
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 last	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wait a condition, not said to happen	past	you	for the original banana	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	last	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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

It would grow into a banana tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 tree	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
6	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tree	compound
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It					into a banana tree result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into tree=Result

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

It would rot, so the owner replaces it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rot	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 rot	aux
3	rot	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 replaces	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 replaces	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 owner	det
7	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 replaces	nsubj
8	replaces	replace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rot	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 replaces	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rot	would	It						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	replace	present	the owner	it					vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

Option 3

It would stay fresh and yellow for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 yellow	cc
6	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fresh	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 ever	case
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	It					fresh property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It would turn into gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 gold	case
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It			gold			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into gold=Trajectory

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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