Test 7 · ★★ · Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism

What would happen if Chen's club painted the school wall with no plan and no permission?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: club · What happens: happen, paint · To what, where: school wall

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	_	8 painted	mark
5	Chen	Chen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 club	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Chen	case
7	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 painted	nsubj
8	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wall	det
10	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wall	compound
11	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 painted	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 plan	case
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 plan	det
14	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 painted	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 permission	cc
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 permission	det
17	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 plan	conj
18	?	?	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	paint a condition, not said to happen	past	Chen's club	the school wall				with no plan and no permission	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent wall=Destination with plan=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 · ✓ the right answer

It could be damage and look messy

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	4 damage	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 damage	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 damage	cop
4	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 look	cc
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 damage	conj
7	messy	messy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	could	It	damage					tree rules
2	look	infinitive						messy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

It would be better than a planned one

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	4 better	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 better	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 better	cop
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	8 one	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	planned	plan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					than a planned one; good property	tree rules
2	plan	participle							vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It would be legal because it is their school

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	4 legal	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 legal	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 legal	cop
4	legal	legal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 school	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 school	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 school	cop
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 school	nmod:poss
9	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 legal	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					legal property	tree rules
2	is a	present	it	their school					tree rules

Option 4

Nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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