Test 5 · Elements and the famous members of the periodic table

What would happen if you cooled mercury to minus 50 degrees?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, cool · To what, where: mercury

This is test 5 of lesson 2 «Elements and the famous members of the periodic table» 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	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 cooled	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 cooled	nsubj
6	cooled	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	mercury	mercury	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cooled	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 minus	case
9	minus	minus	SYM	_	6 cooled	obj
10	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 degrees	nummod
11	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 minus	obl:unmarked
12	?	?	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	cool a condition, not said to happen	past	you	mercury					tree rules

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 stay liquid forever

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	liquid	liquid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	xcomp
5	forever	forever	ADV	_	3 stay	advmod

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

Option 2

It would boil away and turn into a gas

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 boil	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 boil	aux
3	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 boil	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 turn	cc
6	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 boil	conj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 gas	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 gas	det
9	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil away	would	It					away property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	turn	present				a gas			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into gas=Trajectory

Option 3

It would turn into silver

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	_	5 silver	case
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It would freeze into a solid metal

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 freeze	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 freeze	aux
3	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 metal	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 metal	det
6	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 metal	amod
7	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 freeze	obl

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

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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