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title: What would happen if the drummer and bass player both quit the night… — Starting a band · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if the drummer and bass player both quit the night before the gig? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 4 «Starting a band» 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 · ★ · Starting a band

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What would happen if the drummer and bass player both quit the night before the gig?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** drummer · **What happens:** happen, quit

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 4 «Starting a band» 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/4-starting-a-band/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:4-starting-a-band:t2:1
# text = What would happen if the drummer and bass player both quit the night before the gig?
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	_	11	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	drummer	drummer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	bass	bass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc:preconj	_	_
11	quit	quit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	gig	gig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 | **quit** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the drummer and bass player |  |  |  | before the gig; night |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The audience would not notice anything

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:4-starting-a-band:t2:o1:1
# text = The audience would not notice anything
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **notice** | would | the audience | anything |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |

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

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The songs would lose the beat and low notes that hold them up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:4-starting-a-band:t2:o2:1
# text = The songs would lose the beat and low notes that hold them up
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	beat	beat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | would | the songs | the beat and low notes |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beat=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hold up** | present | low notes | beat |  |  |  |  | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The band would sound better without them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:4-starting-a-band:t2:o3:1
# text = The band would sound better without them
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
6	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | would | the band |  |  |  |  | without them *= they*; good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing, the singer could easily do all of it alone with a microphone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:4-starting-a-band:t2:o4:1
# text = Nothing, the singer could easily do all of it alone with a microphone
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	singer	singer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	microphone	microphone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | could | Nothing | all |  |  |  | with a microphone; alone, easily *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality |

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