Test 2 · Solids, liquids and gases

What would happen to a blown-up balloon left in a cold car overnight?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, blow up, leave · To what, where: blown balloon, cold car

This is test 2 of lesson 4 «Solids, liquids and gases» 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	to	to	ADP	_	9 balloon	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 balloon	det
6	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 balloon	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 up	punct
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 blown	compound:prt
9	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 balloon	acl
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 car	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 car	det
13	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 car	amod
14	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	obl
15	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	3 happen	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would		to a blown balloon; overnight property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	blow up	participle			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	leave	participle	a blown balloon not said here	in a cold car result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in car=Result

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

It would turn into a liquid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 liquid	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 liquid	det
6	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It			a liquid			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into liquid=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would shrink a little and grow back when warmed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shrink	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 shrink	aux
3	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shrink	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 grow	cc
7	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shrink	conj
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 grow	advmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 warmed	advmod
10	warmed	warm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 grow	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	shrink	would	It	a little	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent little=Patient
2	grow back	present			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	warm	participle			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It would grow bigger and bigger in the cold until it popped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bigger	cc
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 bigger	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 cold	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cold	det
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bigger	obl
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 popped	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 popped	nsubj
12	popped	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pop	past	it						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It would burst from the cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 burst	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 burst	aux
3	burst	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 cold	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cold	det
6	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burst	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burst	would	It			the cold			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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