Test 9 · ★★★ · Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures

What would happen to «Faster than fairies» if you read it very slowly, like a lullaby?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, read · To what, where: it

This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 25 «Reading poems: meaning, sound and pictures» of the English 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	PART	_	6 Faster	mark
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 Faster	punct
6	Faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 happen	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 fairies	case
8	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Faster	obl
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 read	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 read	nsubj
12	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 read	obj
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 slowly	advmod
15	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	12 read	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lullaby	punct
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 lullaby	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 lullaby	det
19	lullaby	lullaby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						like a lullaby	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	read a condition, not said to happen	present	you	it				slowly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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 sound even faster and more exciting

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 sound	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sound	aux
3	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 faster	advmod
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 sound	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 exciting	cc
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 exciting	advmod
8	exciting	exciting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sound	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	would	It					fast property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

It would become a different poem with new words

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 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 poem	det
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 poem	amod
6	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 words	case
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 words	amod
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 poem	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	It	a different poem with new words					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Nothing would change, it is the same poem

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	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 poem	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 poem	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 poem	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 poem	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 poem	amod
9	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	obl

#	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
2	is a	present	it	the same poem					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

You'd lose the rushing train feeling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 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	7 feeling	det
5	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 feeling	amod
6	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feeling	compound
7	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	You	the rushing train feeling					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feeling=Eventuality
2	rush	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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