Test 2 · Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas

What would happen if you built a tall tower of single bricks straight on top of each other?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, build · To what, where: tall tower, top

This is test 2 of lesson 32 «Lego builds: instructions vs your own ideas» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 built	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 built	nsubj
6	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tower	det
8	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tower	amod
9	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 built	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 bricks	case
11	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bricks	amod
12	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 tower	nmod
13	straight	straight	ADV	_	15 top	advmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 top	case
15	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 built	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 each	case
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 top	nmod
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 each	fixed
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	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	build a condition, not said to happen	past	you	a tall tower of single bricks		top of each			vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent tower=Theme on top=Source

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It would bend like rubber

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bend	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bend	aux
3	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 rubber	case
5	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bend	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	would	It					like rubber	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It would bend over a little bit but it would never break

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bend	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bend	aux
3	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	7 bit	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bit	amod
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bend	obl
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 break	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 break	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 break	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 break	advmod
12	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bend	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	would	It			a little bit			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over bit=Location
2	not break	would	bit						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It would likely snap at the joins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 snap	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 snap	aux
3	likely	likely	ADV	_	4 snap	advmod
4	snap	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 joins	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 joins	det
7	joins	join	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 snap	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	would	It			the joins		likely property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at join=Location

Option 4

It would be the strongest kind of tower that you could build

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kind	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 kind	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 kind	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kind	det
5	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 kind	amod
6	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 tower	case
8	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kind	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 build	nsubj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 build	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 build	aux
12	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 kind	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	It	the strongest kind				of tower	tree rules
2	build	could	the strongest kind						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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