Test 3 · ★★ · Glass and pottery

If the whole windscreen of a car broke into tiny pieces in a crash, what would go wrong?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: whole windscreen, crash · What happens: break, go · To what, where: tiny pieces

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 30 «Glass and pottery» 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	_	8 broke	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 windscreen	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 windscreen	amod
4	windscreen	windscreen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 broke	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 car	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 car	det
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 windscreen	nmod
8	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 pieces	case
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pieces	amod
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 broke	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 crash	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 crash	det
14	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 broke	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 go	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 crash	acl:relcl
19	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 go	xcomp
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 broke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	the whole windscreen of a car			tiny pieces		in a crash	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in crash=Location
2	go	would	a crash					wrong property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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

The car would go faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 car	det
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	the car					fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nothing, that is how it is meant to work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 meant	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 meant	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 meant	cop
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 meant	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 meant	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 meant	aux:pass
8	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Nothing	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 work	mark
10	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 meant	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present · passive						mean property	tree rules
2	work not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The car would become waterproof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 car	det
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	waterproof	waterproof	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	the car					waterproof property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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

Pieces could fly at people inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fly	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fly	obl
6	inside	inside	ADV	_	3 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	could	Pieces					at people; inside property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at people=Location

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