Test 9 · ★★ · Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground

What would happen if a matador waved a still red cape and a moving green one?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: matador · What happens: happen, wave, move · To what, where: red cape

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 32 «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» of the myths 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 waved	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 matador	det
6	matador	matador	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 waved	nsubj
7	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cape	det
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 red	advmod
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cape	amod
11	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 waved	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 one	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 one	det
14	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 one	amod
15	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 one	amod
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cape	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wave a condition, not said to happen	past	a matador	a red cape and a moving green one	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cape=Patient
3	move	gerund			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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

The bull would go for whichever is brighter red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bull	det
2	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 whichever	case
6	whichever	whichever	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 brighter	cop
8	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 go	xcomp
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brighter	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	the bull					for whichever	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for whichever=Beneficiary
2	is	present	the bull not said here					bright property	tree rules

Option 2

The bull would ignore both

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bull	det
2	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ignore	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 ignore	aux
4	ignore	ignore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 ignore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	would	the bull	both					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The bull would go for the moving green one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bull	det
2	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	9 one	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 one	det
7	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 one	amod
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	amod
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	the bull					for the moving green one	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for one=Beneficiary
2	move	gerund							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The bull would go for the still red one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bull	det
2	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	9 one	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 one	det
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 red	advmod
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	amod
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	the bull					for the red one	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for one=Beneficiary

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