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title: What would happen if a big museum let every visitor touch the painti… — Museums and galleries: how to visit an… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a big museum let every visitor touch the paintings for 50 years? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 17 «Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is there» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice
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# Test 4 · ★ · Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is there

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What would happen if a big museum let every visitor touch the paintings for 50 years?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** big museum, visitor · **What happens:** happen, let, touch · **To what, where:** visitor, paintings

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 17 «Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is there» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there:t4:1
# text = What would happen if a big museum let every visitor touch the paintings for 50 years?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	museum	museum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	visitor	visitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 | **let** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | a big museum | every visitor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **touch** | infinitive | every visitor *not said here* | the paintings |  |  | year |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme painting=Co-Theme |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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They would look brighter and cleaner than ever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there:t4:o1:1
# text = They would look brighter and cleaner than ever
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	brighter	bright	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	cleaner	clean	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | would | They |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The paintings would be badly worn and damaged

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there:t4:o2:1
# text = The paintings would be badly worn and damaged
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	damaged	damage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | would · passive |  | the paintings |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |
| 2 | **damage** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing at all would change

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there:t4:o3:1
# text = Nothing at all would change
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

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The paintings would grow bigger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there:t4:o4:1
# text = The paintings would grow bigger
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | the paintings |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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