Test 5 · "How do you know?"

What would happen if a matador waved a green cape at a bull?

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

This is test 5 of lesson 186 «"How do you know?"» of the world 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	10 cape	det
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cape	amod
10	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 waved	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 bull	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bull	det
13	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 waved	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	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 green cape				at a bull	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cape=Patient

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

It would run away from green

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 run	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 run	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 green	case
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	would	It			green		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from green=Trajectory

Option 2

It would ignore anything that isn't red, like green

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 ignore	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 ignore	aux
3	ignore	ignore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 ignore	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 red	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 red	cop
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 red	advmod
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 anything	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 green	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 green	case
11	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ignore	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	would	It	anything					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
2	not is	present						red property	tree rules

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

It would charge at the moving cape all the same

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 charge	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 charge	aux
3	charge	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 cape	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cape	det
6	moving	moving	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cape	compound
7	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 charge	obl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 same	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 same	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 charge	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	would	It			the moving cape			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cape=Trajectory

Option 4

It would sit down calmly

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 sit	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sit	aux
3	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sit	compound:prt
5	calmly	calmly	ADV	_	3 sit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	would	It					calmly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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