Test 2 · ★★ · Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys

What would happen if a violinist forgot to put rosin on the bow?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: violinist · What happens: happen, forget, not put · To what, where: rosin, bow

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys» 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	_	7 forgot	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 violinist	det
6	violinist	violinist	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forgot	nsubj
7	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 put	mark
9	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 forgot	xcomp
10	rosin	rosin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 bow	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bow	det
13	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	forget a condition, not said to happen	past	a violinist			tree rules
3	not put	to-infinitive	a violinist not said here	rosin	the bow	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent rosin=Theme on bow=Destination

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 strings would snap at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 strings	det
2	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 snap	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 snap	aux
4	snap	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 snap	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	would	the strings						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The bow would slide and hardly make the string sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bow	det
2	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slide	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 slide	aux
4	slide	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 make	cc
6	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	7 make	advmod
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 slide	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sound	det
9	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sound	compound
10	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide	would	the bow						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	infinitive	the bow not said here	the string sound				hardly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product

Option 3

Nothing at all would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

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

Option 4

The violin would get much louder and brighter than before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 violin	det
2	violin	violin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 louder	advmod
6	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 brighter	cc
8	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 louder	conj
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 before	case
10	before	before	ADV	_	6 louder	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the violin					loud property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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