Test 6 · ★★ · Soap and why washing works

If you put a drop of soap behind a paper boat on a still pond, what would happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: put, happen · To what, where: drop, paper boat

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 24 «Soap and why washing works» 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	_	3 put	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 happen	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 drop	det
5	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 soap	case
7	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drop	nmod
8	behind	behind	ADP	_	11 boat	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 boat	det
10	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 boat	compound
11	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 pond	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pond	det
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 pond	advmod
15	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 put	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	root	root
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put a condition, not said to happen	present	you	a drop of soap		a paper boat		on a pond	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent drop=Theme on pond=Destination
2	happen	would							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 boat would shoot forward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boat	det
2	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shoot	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 shoot	aux
4	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	forward	forward	ADV	_	4 shoot	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	would	the boat					forward property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The boat would spin in circles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boat	det
2	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spin	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 spin	aux
4	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 circles	case
6	circles	circle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spin	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	would	the boat			circles			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in circle=Trajectory

Option 3

The boat would sink at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Nothing would happen at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would	Nothing			all			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location

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