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Test 4 · ★ · Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola

It's 35 °C and a pack of cans sits in the car all afternoon. What could happen?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: It, pack · What happens: be, sit, happen · To what, where: 35 ° C, car

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 19 «Fizzy drinks, Mentos and cola» 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

Sentence 1: It's 35 °C and a pack of cans sits in the car all afternoon.

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	5 C	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 C	cop
3	35	35	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 C	nummod
4	°	°	SYM	_	5 C	compound
5	C	C	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sits	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pack	det
8	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sits	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 cans	case
10	cans	can	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pack	nmod
11	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 C	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 car	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 car	det
14	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sits	obl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 afternoon	det
16	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sits	obl:unmarked
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 C	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	35 ° C					tree rules
2	sit	present	a pack of cans			the car	afternoon		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in car=Location

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.

Sentence 2: What could happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	could							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Nothing, cans can't burst

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 cans	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	cans	can	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 burst	nsubj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 burst	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 burst	advmod
6	burst	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not burst	can	Nothing cans						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They would freeze from the heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 freeze	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 freeze	aux
3	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 heat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heat	det
6	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 freeze	obl

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

Option 3

They would go flat but stay closed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	flat	flat	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 stay	cc
6	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	conj
7	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	They					flat property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stay	infinitive	They not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	close	participle	They not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

Some cans could burst

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 cans	det
2	cans	can	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 burst	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 burst	aux
4	burst	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burst	could	some cans						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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