Test 2 · Special effects and stunts

What would happen if a film fight used real punches?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: film fight · What happens: happen, use · To what, where: real punches

This is test 2 of lesson 25 «Special effects and stunts» 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 used	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fight	det
6	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fight	compound
7	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 used	nsubj
8	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 punches	amod
10	punches	punch	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 used	obj
11	?	?	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	use a condition, not said to happen	past	a film fight	real punches					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punch=Patient

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 actors would quickly get used to it and stop feeling the punches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 actors	det
2	actors	actor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 used	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 used	aux
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	6 used	advmod
5	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 used	aux:pass
6	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 used	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stop	cc
10	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 used	conj
11	feeling	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 stop	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 punches	det
13	punches	punch	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 feeling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	use	would · passive	the actors	it	quickly property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	stop	infinitive				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	feel	gerund	the punches			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punch=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The fight would look exactly the same but somehow be much safer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fight	det
2	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 look	aux
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 same	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 same	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 safer	cc
9	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	12 safer	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 safer	cop
11	much	much	ADV	_	12 safer	advmod
12	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 look	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	would	the fight					same property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	infinitive	the fight not said here					safe, somehow property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Actors would get hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Actors	actor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hurt	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hurt	aux
3	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 hurt	aux:pass
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	would · passive		Actors					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

The film would be banned from every cinema in the country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 film	det
2	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 banned	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 banned	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 banned	aux:pass
5	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 cinema	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 cinema	det
8	cinema	cinema	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 banned	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 country	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 country	det
11	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 banned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ban	would · passive		the film		every cinema		in the country	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from cinema=Eventuality

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