Test 2 · ★ · The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earwo…

What would happen if everyone downloaded songs only from pirate sites?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: everyone · What happens: happen, download · To what, where: songs, pirate sites

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 5 «The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms» 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 downloaded	mark
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 downloaded	nsubj
6	downloaded	download	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 downloaded	obj
8	only	only	ADV	_	11 sites	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 sites	case
10	pirate	pirate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sites	compound
11	sites	site	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 songs	nmod
12	?	?	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	download a condition, not said to happen	past	everyone	songs		pirate sites			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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Musicians would get paid nothing for their songs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Musicians	musician	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 nothing	amod
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 get	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 songs	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 songs	nmod:poss
8	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	would	Musicians	nothing	for Musicians's songs	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme for song=Source
2	pay	participle				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	sing		Musicians = musician			nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

The songs would sound better

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 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

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

Option 3

Nothing would change for anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 anyone	case
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing					for anyone	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Musicians would get much richer, because more people would listen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Musicians	musician	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 richer	advmod
5	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 listen	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 listen	mark
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 listen	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 listen	aux
11	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 get	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Musicians					rich property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	listen	would	more people						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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