Test 4 · ★ · Gases all around: breath and balloons

If the burner of a hot-air balloon stopped working high in the sky, what would happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: burner, sky · What happens: stop, work, happen

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 20 «Gases all around: breath and balloons» 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	_	10 stopped	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 burner	det
3	burner	burner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stopped	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 balloon	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 balloon	det
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 air	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 hot	punct
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 balloon	compound
9	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burner	nmod
10	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 stopped	xcomp
12	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 working	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 sky	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sky	det
15	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 working	obl
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 sky	acl:relcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 stopped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the burner of a air balloon		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	work	gerund	the burner of a air balloon not said here	in the sky; high property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in sky=Theme
3	happen	would	the sky		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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The air inside would cool and the balloon would sink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 air	det
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cool	nsubj
3	inside	inside	ADV	_	2 air	advmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 cool	aux
5	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sink	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 balloon	det
8	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sink	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 sink	aux
10	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cool	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool	would	the air						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	sink	would	the balloon						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

The balloon would stay still for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 balloon	det
2	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	aux
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	still	still	ADV	_	4 stay	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 ever	case
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 stay	obl

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

Option 3

The balloon would shoot up faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 balloon	det
2	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shoot	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 shoot	aux
4	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 shoot	compound:prt
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 shoot	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot up	would	the balloon					fast property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The balloon would burst at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 balloon	det
2	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 burst	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 burst	aux
4	burst	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 burst	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burst	would	the balloon						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location

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