Test 2 · Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons

What would happen if you watched a scary chase with the sound off?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, watch off · To what, where: scary chase

This is test 2 of lesson 24 «Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons» 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 watched	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 watched	nsubj
6	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 chase	det
8	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 chase	amod
9	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watched	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 sound	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sound	det
12	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watched	obl
13	off	off	ADP	_	6 watched	compound:prt
14	?	?	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	watch off a condition, not said to happen	past	you	a scary chase				with the sound	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chase=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 right answer

It would feel less exciting

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 feel	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	aux
3	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 exciting	advmod
5	exciting	exciting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feel	xcomp

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

You would still hear the sound anyway inside your head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 hear	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 hear	advmod
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sound	det
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hear	obj
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 hear	advmod
8	inside	inside	ADP	_	10 head	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 head	nmod:poss
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	would	You	the sound		your head	still	anyway property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus

Option 3

The pictures would stop moving until the sound came back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pictures	det
2	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 came	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sound	det
8	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 moving	advcl
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	stop	would	the pictures	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	move	gerund	the pictures not said here	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	come back	past	the sound	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It would feel even scarier than with the sound on

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 feel	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	aux
3	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 scarier	advmod
5	scarier	scarey	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 feel	xcomp
6	than	than	ADP	_	9 sound	case
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 sound	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sound	det
9	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 scarier	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	3 feel	compound:prt

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

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