Test 10 · ★★ · The air we breathe

If all the tiny plants in the sea died, what would happen?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tiny plants · What happens: die, happen

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 33 «The air we breathe» 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	_	9 died	mark
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 plants	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plants	det
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plants	amod
5	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 died	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plants	nmod
9	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 happen	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 died	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 happen	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 happen	aux
13	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die a condition, not said to happen	past	all tiny plants in the sea						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
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 · ✓ the right answer

About half the new oxygen would stop being made

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 half	advmod
2	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	5 oxygen	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 oxygen	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 oxygen	amod
5	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stop	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 stop	aux
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 made	aux:pass
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	half new oxygen						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	make	gerund · passive	half new oxygen not said here						vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»

Option 2

Only the fish would notice any change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 notice	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fish	det
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 notice	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 notice	aux
5	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 change	det
7	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 notice	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	would	the fish	any change					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer change=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

More oxygen would be made than before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 oxygen	amod
2	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 before	fixed
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would · passive		More oxygen					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 4

Nothing, forests make all the oxygen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 forests	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 oxygen	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 oxygen	det
7	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Nothing forests	all oxygen					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset oxygen=Product

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