Test 10 · Dyes, inks and colouring

What would happen if Perkin hadn't had his lucky accident?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Perkin · What happens: happen, not have · To what, where: lucky accident

This is test 10 of lesson 27 «Dyes, inks and colouring» 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	_	8 had	mark
5	Perkin	Perkin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 had	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 had	advmod
8	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 accident	nmod:poss
10	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 accident	amod
11	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
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	not have a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Perkin	Perkin's lucky accident					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent accident=Patient

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

Snails would have died out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 died	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 died	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 died	aux
4	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 died	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die out	would · perfect	Snails						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

Kings would have worn green instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 worn	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 worn	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 worn	aux
4	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 worn	xcomp
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 worn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	would · perfect · passive		Kings				green, instead property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source

Option 3

Nobody would ever be able to see purple again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 able	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 able	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 able	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 able	cop
5	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 able	xcomp
8	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 see	xcomp
9	again	again	ADV	_	7 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Nobody				ever	able property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	Nobody not said here				again	purple property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cheap factory purple would have come later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 purple	amod
2	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 purple	compound
3	purple	purple	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	would · perfect	Cheap factory purple					late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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