Test 2 · ★ · Roots, stems and leaves

What would happen if you put a white flower in red water?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, put · To what, where: white flower, red water

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 57 «Roots, stems and leaves» 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 flower	det
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 flower	amod
9	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 water	case
11	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 water	amod
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
13	?	?	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 white flower		red water			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme in water=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 flower would turn green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flower	det
2	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the flower					green property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nothing at all would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The red water would slowly turn clear and white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 water	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turn	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 turn	aux
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	6 turn	advmod
6	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 turn	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 white	cc
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 clear	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the red water					clear, slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The petals would slowly turn pinkish-red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 petals	det
2	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 turn	aux
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 turn	advmod
5	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	pinkish	pinkish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 turn	xcomp
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 pinkish	punct
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pinkish	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the petals					pinkish, slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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