Test 7 · ★★★ · The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what i…

What would happen to a road if nobody used it for 40 years?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nobody · What happens: happen, use · To what, where: road

This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 376 «The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued» 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 road	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 road	det
6	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 used	mark
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 used	nsubj
9	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 used	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 years	case
12	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 used	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a road	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use a condition, not said to happen	past	nobody	road			year		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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 river

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 river	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

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

Option 2

It would stay brand new

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 stay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	brand	brand	ADV	_	5 new	advmod
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	It					new property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Plants would crack it and a forest would grow over it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crack	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 crack	aux
3	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 crack	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 grow	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 forest	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grow	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 grow	aux
9	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 crack	conj
10	over	over	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	would	Plants	it					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	grow	would	a forest			it			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Location

Option 4

It would sink into the ground at once and leave a long deep hole

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 sink	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sink	aux
3	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sink	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 sink	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 leave	cc
10	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sink	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hole	det
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hole	amod
13	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hole	amod
14	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	would	It			the ground			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	leave	infinitive		a long deep hole					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Theme

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