Test 2 · ★★ · Modern art: "my little brother could do that"

What would happen if you tried to copy a Pollock with a bucket of paint?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, try, copy · To what, where: Pollock

This is test 2 · ★★ 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 tried	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tried	nsubj
6	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 copy	mark
8	copy	copy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tried	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Pollock	det
10	Pollock	pollock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 copy	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 bucket	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bucket	det
13	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 copy	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 paint	case
15	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bucket	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try a condition, not said to happen	past	you			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	copy not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	a Pollock	with a bucket of paint	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pollock=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

The paint would refuse to drip onto the canvas at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 paint	det
2	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 refuse	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 refuse	aux
4	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 drip	mark
6	drip	drip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 refuse	xcomp
7	onto	onto	ADP	_	9 canvas	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 canvas	det
9	canvas	canvas	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drip	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 drip	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	would	the paint						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not drip	to-infinitive	the paint not said here			the canvas		at all	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto canvas=Location

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

You would most likely find it harder than it looks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 find	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 find	aux
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 find	advmod
5	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 find	obj
7	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 find	xcomp
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	10 looks	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 looks	nsubj
10	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 harder	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	You	it				hard, likely property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	look	present	it						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

It would come out exactly the same, first time

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 come	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	10 time	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 same	punct
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	would	It				time	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Pollock would sue you from the past

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pollock	pollock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sue	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sue	aux
3	sue	sue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 sue	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 past	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 past	det
7	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sue	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sue	would	Pollock	you		the past			tree rules

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