Test 2 · ★ · Starting a band

What would happen if the drummer and bass player both quit the night before the gig?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: drummer · What happens: happen, quit

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 4 «Starting a band» 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	_	11 quit	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 drummer	det
6	drummer	drummer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 quit	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 player	cc
8	bass	bass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 player	compound
9	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drummer	conj
10	both	both	CCONJ	_	11 quit	cc:preconj
11	quit	quit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 night	det
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 quit	obl:unmarked
14	before	before	ADP	_	16 gig	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gig	det
16	gig	gig	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 quit	obl
17	?	?	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	quit a condition, not said to happen	past	the drummer and bass player				before the gig; night		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ← Mova's choice

The audience would not notice anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 audience	det
2	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 notice	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 notice	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 notice	advmod
5	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 notice	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not notice	would	the audience	anything					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The songs would lose the beat and low notes that hold them up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 songs	det
2	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lose	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lose	aux
4	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beat	det
6	beat	beat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 notes	cc
8	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 notes	amod
9	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 beat	conj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 hold	nsubj
11	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 notes	acl:relcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hold	obj
13	up	up	ADP	_	11 hold	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	the songs	the beat and low notes					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beat=Eventuality
2	hold up	present	low notes	beat					vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme

Option 3

The band would sound better without them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 band	det
2	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sound	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sound	aux
4	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 sound	xcomp
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sound	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	would	the band					without them = they; good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Nothing, the singer could easily do all of it alone with a microphone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 do	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 singer	det
4	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
6	easily	easily	ADV	_	7 do	advmod
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 do	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 all	nmod
11	alone	alone	ADV	_	7 do	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 microphone	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 microphone	det
14	microphone	microphone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	could	Nothing	all				with a microphone; alone, easily property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality

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