Test 11 · ★★ · Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphin…

What would happen if a river stopped carrying mud to its mouth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: river · What happens: happen, stop, carry · To what, where: mud, mouth

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 374 «Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphins, sturgeon and gobies» 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	_	7 stopped	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stopped	nsubj
7	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stopped	xcomp
9	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carrying	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 mouth	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mouth	nmod:poss
12	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carrying	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop a condition, not said to happen	past	a river			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	carry	gerund	a river not said here	mud	river's mouth	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mud=Theme to mouth=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

The delta would stop building new land into the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 delta	det
2	delta	delta	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	building	build	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 land	amod
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 building	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 building	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	the delta						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	build	gerund	the delta not said here	new land		the sea			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent land=Material into sea=Product

Option 2

The sea around it would slowly turn into fresh water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	around	around	ADP	_	7 turn	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 turn	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 turn	aux
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	7 turn	advmod
7	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sea	acl
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 water	case
9	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 water	amod
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	sea	the sea not said here		fresh water		slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent sea=Theme into water=Trajectory

Option 3

The delta would grow faster than ever before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 delta	det
2	delta	delta	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 ever	case
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 before	advmod
8	before	before	ADV	_	4 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	the delta					before, fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The river would flow uphill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 river	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 flow	aux
4	flow	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	uphill	uphill	ADV	_	4 flow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flow	would	the river					uphill property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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