Test 8 · Rust: iron's slow fire

If a cartoon robot made of plain iron went swimming in the sea every day, what would happen?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon robot, day · What happens: make, go, swim, happen · To what, where: cartoon robot, sea

This is test 8 of lesson 13 «Rust: iron's slow fire» of the chemistry 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	9 went	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 robot	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 robot	compound
4	robot	robot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 robot	acl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 iron	case
7	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 iron	amod
8	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 went	xcomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swimming	obl
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swimming	obl:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 happen	punct
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 happen	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 happen	aux
19	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 day	acl:relcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		a cartoon robot not said here			of plain iron	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	go	past	a cartoon robot					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	swim	gerund	a cartoon robot not said here		the sea	day		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory
4	happen	would	every day					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

It would stay shiny thanks to the salt

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	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thanks	amod
5	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 stay	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 salt	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 salt	det
8	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	It	shiny thanks				to the salt	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme thanks=Location

Option 2

It would slowly turn into stainless steel

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 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 steel	case
6	stainless	stainless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 steel	amod
7	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl

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

Option 3

It would turn green like a statue

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	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turn	xcomp
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 statue	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 statue	det
7	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would rust fast, sped up by the salt

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 rust	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 rust	aux
3	rust	rust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 rust	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sped	punct
6	sped	speed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 rust	conj
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 sped	compound:prt
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 salt	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 salt	det
10	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rust	would	It					fast property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	speed up	participle						by the salt	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by salt=Trajectory

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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