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title: What would happen if a matador waved a still red cape and a moving g… — Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a matador waved a still red cape and a moving green one? Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 32 «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» of the myths 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 9 · ★★ · Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground

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What would happen if a matador waved a still red cape and a moving green one?

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

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This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 32 «Siblings, cousins, grandparents — and the whole playground» of the myths 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/myths/32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground:t9:1
# text = What would happen if a matador waved a still red cape and a moving green one?
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	_	7	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	matador	matador	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	waved	wave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cape	cape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
15	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	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 | **wave** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a matador | a red cape and a moving green one |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cape=Patient |
| 3 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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 {#o1}

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The bull would go for whichever is brighter red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground:t9:o1:1
# text = The bull would go for whichever is brighter red
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	whichever	whichever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	brighter	bright	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
9	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | would | the bull |  |  |  |  | for whichever | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for whichever=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **is** | present | the bull *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The bull would ignore both

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground:t9:o2:1
# text = The bull would ignore both
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	ignore	ignore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ignore** | would | the bull | both |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Theme |

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

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The bull would go for the moving green one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground:t9:o3:1
# text = The bull would go for the moving green one
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
8	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | would | the bull |  |  |  |  | for the moving green one | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for one=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The bull would go for the still red one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:32-siblings-cousins-grandparents-and-the-whole-playground:t9:o4:1
# text = The bull would go for the still red one
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | would | the bull |  |  |  |  | for the red one | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for one=Beneficiary |

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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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