Test 3 · ★ · Oil and water, and things that won't mix

What would happen if you left a lava lamp switched off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, leave, switch off · To what, where: lava lamp

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 7 «Oil and water, and things that won't mix» 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	_	6 left	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 left	nsubj
6	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lamp	det
8	lava	lava	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lamp	compound
9	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obj
10	switched	switch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 lamp	acl
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 switched	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave a condition, not said to happen	past	you	a lava lamp	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme
3	switch off	participle		a lava lamp not said here	vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

The blobs would keep rising and falling forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 blobs	det
2	blobs	blob	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 keep	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 keep	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 falling	cc
7	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 rising	conj
8	forever	forever	ADV	_	7 falling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	would	the blobs		tree rules
2	rise	gerund	the blobs not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fall	gerund	the blobs not said here	forever property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The lamp would get hot and explode

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lamp	det
2	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 explode	cc
7	explode	explode	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the lamp					hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	explode	infinitive	the lamp not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The wax would dissolve in the liquid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wax	det
2	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dissolve	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dissolve	aux
4	dissolve	dissolve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 liquid	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 liquid	det
7	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dissolve	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dissolve	would	the wax			the liquid			vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The wax would sit at the bottom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wax	det
2	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	aux
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 bottom	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bottom	det
7	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	would	the wax			the bottom			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bottom=Location

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