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title: What could happen to a party balloon let go in Texas? — Wild animals, zoos and kindness to ani… · tree and pragmatics
description: What could happen to a party balloon let go in Texas? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 71 «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 5 · ★ · Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals

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What could happen to a party balloon let go in Texas?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** party balloon · **What happens:** happen, let, go · **To what, where:** party balloon, Texas

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 71 «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals» of the everyday 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/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness:t5:1
# text = What could happen to a party balloon let go in Texas?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	balloon	balloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Texas	Texas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | could |  |  |  |  |  | to a party balloon | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | participle |  | a party balloon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | a party balloon *not said here* |  |  | Texas |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in texas=Location |

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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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It will turn into rain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness:t5:o1:1
# text = It will turn into rain
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | future | It |  |  | rain |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into rain=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It will land back where it started

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness:t5:o2:1
# text = It will land back where it started
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	land	land	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land back** | future | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **start** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It may come down far away and harm a bird or turtle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness:t5:o3:1
# text = It may come down far away and harm a bird or turtle
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | may | It |  |  |  |  | away, down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **harm** | infinitive |  | a bird or turtle |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It will float high in the sky for ever and never come down at all

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness:t5:o4:1
# text = It will float high in the sky for ever and never come down at all
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	float	float	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | future | It |  |  | the sky |  | high *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Trajectory |
| 2 | **not** **come down** | infinitive |  |  |  | all |  | down *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location |

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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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