Test 2 · Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch

What would happen if you spent all film night scrolling the menu?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, spend, scroll · To what, where: menu

This is test 2 of lesson 26 «Age ratings, scary films and choosing what to watch» 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 spent	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 spent	nsubj
6	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 night	det
8	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 night	compound
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spent	obj
10	scrolling	scroll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 spent	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 menu	det
12	menu	menu	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scrolling	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spend a condition, not said to happen	past	you		night	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	scroll	gerund	you not said here	the menu		tree rules

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

No time left to watch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 time	acl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 watch	mark
5	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 left	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle		no time not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	watch	to-infinitive							vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The streaming service would get annoyed and choose a film for you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 service	det
2	streaming	streaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 service	compound
3	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 choose	cc
8	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 get	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 film	det
10	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 choose	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 choose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the streaming service					annoyed property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	choose	infinitive	the streaming service not said here	a film				for you	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent film=Theme for you=Beneficiary

Option 3

The films in the library would all become much shorter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 films	det
2	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 become	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 library	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 library	det
5	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 films	nmod
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 become	aux
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 become	advmod
8	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	much	much	ADV	_	10 shorter	advmod
10	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 become	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	the films in the library					all property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

You would end up seeing more films than ever before in one night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 end	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 end	aux
3	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 end	compound:prt
5	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 end	xcomp
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 films	amod
7	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 seeing	obj
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	10 before	mark
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 before	advmod
10	before	before	ADV	_	7 films	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 night	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 night	nummod
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seeing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	would	You						tree rules
2	see	gerund	You not said here	more films			night		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer film=Stimulus

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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