Test 9 · ★ · Photography and phone cameras

What would most likely happen if Amara turned on the grid and put her friend on a side line?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Amara · What happens: happen, turn, put · To what, where: grid, friend, side line

This is test 9 · ★ 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	5 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 happen	advmod
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 turned	mark
7	Amara	Amara	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 turned	nsubj
8	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	advcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 grid	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 grid	det
11	grid	grid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 put	cc
13	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 turned	conj
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 friend	nmod:poss
15	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 line	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 line	det
18	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 line	compound
19	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	would				likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	turn a condition, not said to happen	past	Amara		the grid		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on grid=Trajectory
3	put	past	Amara not said here	Amara's friend	a side line		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme on line=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 phone would refuse to take it at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 phone	det
2	phone	phone	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 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 refuse	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	would	the phone						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not take	to-infinitive	the phone not said here	phone		all			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at all=Asset

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The photo would be cut in half by the line

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	5 cut	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 cut	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 cut	aux:pass
5	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 half	case
7	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	5 cut	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 line	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 line	det
10	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	would · passive	the line	the photo		half			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The photo might look more interesting

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	4 look	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 look	aux
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 interesting	advmod
6	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp

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

Option 4

Her friend would vanish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 friend	nmod:poss
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vanish	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 vanish	aux
4	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	would	Her friend						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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