Test 2 · ★★ · Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record

What would happen to a song if lots of people streamed it every December for years?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lots · What happens: happen, stream · To what, where: song

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 6 «Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record» 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	to	to	ADP	_	6 song	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 song	det
6	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 streamed	mark
8	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 streamed	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 people	case
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lots	nmod
11	streamed	stream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 streamed	obj
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 December	det
14	December	December	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 streamed	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 years	case
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 streamed	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a song	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stream a condition, not said to happen	past	lots of people	song			december; year		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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 · ← Mova's choice

It would be banned from the charts

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	4 banned	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 banned	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 banned	aux:pass
4	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 charts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 charts	det
7	charts	chart	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 banned	obl

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

Option 2

Its release date would change to that year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 date	nmod:poss
2	release	release	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 date	compound
3	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 change	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 year	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Its release date				year		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It could climb the charts long after it came out

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 climb	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 climb	aux
3	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 charts	det
5	charts	chart	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 climb	obj
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 climb	advmod
7	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 came	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 climb	advcl
10	out	out	ADV	_	9 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	could	It	the charts				long property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location chart=Theme
2	come out	past	it					out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Nothing, old songs can never chart again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 old	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 songs	amod
4	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chart	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 chart	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 chart	advmod
7	chart	chart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	again	again	ADV	_	7 chart	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not chart	can	old songs				again		vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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