Test 5 · ★★ · Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and s…

What would happen if you put a popcorn kernel with a crack in its shell in the hot pan?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, put · To what, where: popcorn kernel, shell

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 288 «Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds» 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	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 put	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 put	nsubj
6	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 kernel	det
8	popcorn	popcorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kernel	compound
9	kernel	kernel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 crack	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 crack	det
12	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 shell	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 shell	nmod:poss
15	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 pan	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pan	det
18	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 pan	amod
19	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
20	?	?	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	put a condition, not said to happen	present	you	a popcorn kernel		crack's shell		with a crack; in the hot pan	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kernel=Theme in shell=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

It would turn into a seed

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 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 seed	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 seed	det
6	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

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

Option 2

It would pop twice as big

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 pop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pop	aux
3	pop	pop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 pop	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 big	advmod
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pop	would	It					big, twice property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It would not pop well, as the steam escapes

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 pop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pop	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 pop	advmod
4	pop	pop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 pop	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 escapes	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 escapes	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 steam	det
9	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 escapes	nsubj
10	escapes	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pop	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pop	would	It					well property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	escape	present	the steam						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It would melt

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 melt	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 melt	aux
3	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	would	It						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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