Test 3 · Metals and what they're good for

If wires inside a house were made of wood instead of copper, what would happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: copper · What happens: make, happen · To what, where: wires

This is test 3 of lesson 31 «Metals and what they're good for» 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	_	7 made	mark
2	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 made	nsubj:pass
3	inside	inside	ADP	_	5 house	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 house	det
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wires	nmod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux:pass
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 wood	case
9	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl
10	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	12 copper	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	10 instead	fixed
12	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 happen	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 happen	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 happen	aux
16	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 copper	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		wires inside a house				of wood; instead copper	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	happen	would	copper						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

Nothing at all would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Electricity would not flow through them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 flow	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 flow	advmod
4	flow	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not flow	would	Electricity					through them = they	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through they=Location

Option 3

Every light in the house would be much brighter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 light	det
2	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brighter	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 house	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 house	det
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 light	nmod
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 brighter	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 brighter	cop
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 brighter	advmod
9	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	every light in the house					bright property	tree rules

Option 4

The house would be warmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 house	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 warmer	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 warmer	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 warmer	cop
5	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the house					warm property	tree rules

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