Test 2 · ★ · Photography and phone cameras

What would happen if you photographed your friend at noon with the bright sun right behind her?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, photograph · To what, where: friend

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 20 «Photography and phone cameras» 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 photographed	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 photographed	nsubj
6	photographed	photograph	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 friend	nmod:poss
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 photographed	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 noon	case
10	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 photographed	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 sun	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sun	det
13	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sun	amod
14	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 noon	nmod
15	right	right	ADV	_	17 her	advmod
16	behind	behind	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 photographed	obl
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	photograph a condition, not said to happen	past	you	your friend			noon	behind friend	vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent friend=Theme behind she=Destination

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 photo would be all white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 photo	det
2	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 white	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 white	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 white	cop
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 white	det
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the photo					white property	tree rules

Option 2

Nothing at all would change in the photo

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
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 photo	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 photo	det
8	photo	photo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing			the photo			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She would look brighter and clearer than ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing 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 clearer	cc
6	clearer	clear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 brighter	conj
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 ever	case
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 clearer	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She would probably come out as a dark silhouette

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	as	as	ADP	_	9 silhouette	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 silhouette	det
8	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 silhouette	amod
9	silhouette	silhouette	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	would	She					as a dark silhouette; out, probably property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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