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title: What would happen if Callum's mate got caught tagging? — Street art and graffiti: legal walls v… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if Callum's mate got caught tagging? Test 2 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism» 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 was wrong.
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# Test 2 · ★★ · Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism

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What would happen if Callum's mate got caught tagging?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** happen, catch, tag · **To what, where:** mate

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This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 19 «Street art and graffiti: legal walls vs vandalism» 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/19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism:t2:1
# text = What would happen if Callum's mate got caught tagging?
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	_	9	mark	_	_
5	Callum	Callum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
10	tagging	tag	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	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 | **catch** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | Callum's mate |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tag** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#o1}

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He would get a medal from the mayor for brightening the town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism:t2:o1:1
# text = He would get a medal from the mayor for brightening the town
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	medal	medal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	brightening	brighten	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | He | a medal |  | the mayor |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent medal=Theme from mayor=Source |
| 2 | **brighten** | gerund | He *not said here* | the town |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent town=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nothing, because kids are never punished

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism:t2:o2:1
# text = Nothing, because kids are never punished
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **punish** | present · passive |  | kids |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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He could face fines or worse, even as a kid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism:t2:o3:1
# text = He could face fines or worse, even as a kid
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	face	face	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	fines	fine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **face** | could | He | fines |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent fine=Destination |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The council would pay him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:19-street-art-and-graffiti-legal-walls-vs-vandalism:t2:o4:1
# text = The council would pay him
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | would | the council | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset |

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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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