Test 2 · ★★ · Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism

What would happen if Callum's mate got caught tagging?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, catch, tag · To what, where: mate

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism» 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	_	9 caught	mark
5	Callum	Callum	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mate	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Callum	case
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 caught	nsubj:pass
8	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 caught	aux:pass
9	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
10	tagging	tag	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 caught	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch a condition, not said to happen	past · passive	Callum's mate	tree rules
3	tag	gerund		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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

He would get a medal from the mayor for brightening the town

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 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 medal	det
5	medal	medal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 mayor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mayor	det
8	mayor	mayor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 brightening	mark
10	brightening	brighten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 get	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 town	det
12	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brightening	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	He	a medal		the mayor			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent medal=Theme from mayor=Source
2	brighten	gerund	He not said here	the town					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent town=Patient

Option 2

Nothing, because kids are never punished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 punished	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 punished	mark
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 punished	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 punished	aux:pass
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 punished	advmod
7	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not punish	present · passive		kids					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He could face fines or worse, even as a kid

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 face	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 face	aux
3	face	face	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	fines	fine	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 face	obj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 worse	cc
6	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 fines	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kid	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	11 kid	advmod
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 kid	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 kid	det
11	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 face	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	face	could	He	fines					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent fine=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The council would pay him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 council	det
2	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pay	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pay	aux
4	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	would	the council	him = he					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset

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