Test 8 · ★★ · Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays

What would happen to a dragon boat whose paddlers ignore the drummer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: paddlers · What happens: happen, ignore · To what, where: drummer

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Lanterns, dragon boats, mooncakes and birthdays» of the Chinese street 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	_	7 boat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boat	det
6	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boat	compound
7	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	9 paddlers	nmod:poss
9	paddlers	paddler	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ignore	nsubj
10	ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 boat	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 drummer	det
12	drummer	drummer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ignore	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a dragon boat	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ignore	present	paddlers	the drummer					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drummer=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

They'd lift off and fly over the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lift	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lift	aux
3	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 lift	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fly	cc
6	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lift	conj
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift off	would	They						vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	fly	infinitive	They not said here			the water			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over water=Location

Option 2

They'd go much faster without the noise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 faster	advmod
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 go	advmod
6	without	without	ADP	_	8 noise	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 noise	det
8	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	They					without the noise; fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They'd lose the rhythm and slow down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lose	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rhythm	det
5	rhythm	rhythm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 slow	cc
7	slow	slow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lose	conj
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 slow	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	They	the rhythm					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhythm=Eventuality
2	slow down	infinitive	They not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Nothing, the drum is just for decoration

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 decoration	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 drum	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 drum	det
4	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	appos
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 decoration	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 decoration	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 decoration	case
8	decoration	decoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					for decoration	tree rules

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