Test 5 · The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils…

What would happen to the inside of a magnetic termite mound if it faced the midday sun with a broad side?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mound · What happens: happen, face · To what, where: midday sun

This is test 5 of lesson 165 «The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads» of the biology 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	to	to	ADP	_	6 inside	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 inside	det
6	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 mound	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 mound	det
9	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mound	amod
10	termite	termite	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mound	compound
11	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 inside	nmod
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 faced	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 faced	nsubj
14	faced	face	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sun	det
16	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sun	compound
17	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 faced	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 side	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 side	det
20	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 side	amod
21	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 faced	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to the inside of a magnetic termite mound	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	face a condition, not said to happen	past	mound	the midday sun				with a broad side	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sun=Destination

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 · ✓ the right answer

It would probably get hotter

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 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	It					hot, probably property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

It would fill with water and become a lake

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 fill	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fill	aux
3	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fill	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 become	cc
7	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fill	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lake	det
9	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	would	It					with water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument
2	become	infinitive		a lake					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Nothing could change, it is always the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 same	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 same	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 same	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 same	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 same	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 change	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	could	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					always, same property	tree rules

Option 4

It would freeze over at night and stay cold

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 freeze	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 freeze	aux
3	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	over	over	ADV	_	3 freeze	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 freeze	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stay	cc
8	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 freeze	conj
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze over	would	It				night	over property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	stay	infinitive						cold property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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