Test 3 · ★ · Changes you can undo and changes you can't

What would happen if you opened the oven far too early while a cake was rising?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, cake · What happens: happen, open, rise · To what, where: oven

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 9 «Changes you can undo and changes you can't» 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 opened	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 opened	nsubj
6	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 oven	det
8	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 opened	obj
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 early	advmod
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 early	advmod
11	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 opened	advmod
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 rising	mark
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cake	det
14	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rising	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 rising	aux
16	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 early	advcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	open a condition, not said to happen	past	you	the oven	early property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location oven=Theme
3	rise	past · progressive	a cake			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

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

It would rise twice as fast, because the cool air from the kitchen helps it grow

The tree, 16 words

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 rise	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 rise	aux
3	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 rise	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 twice	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 helps	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 helps	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 air	det
10	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 air	amod
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 helps	nsubj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 kitchen	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 kitchen	det
14	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 air	nmod
15	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rise	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 helps	obj
17	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 helps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rise	would	It		twice property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	help	present	the cool air from the kitchen	kitchen		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme
3	grow	infinitive	kitchen not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It would turn back into batter at once

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	back	back	ADV	_	3 turn	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 batter	case
6	batter	batter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	would	It			batter			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

It could sink, as bubbles collapse before the walls are firm

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 sink	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sink	aux
3	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 collapse	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 collapse	mark
6	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 collapse	nsubj
7	collapse	collapse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sink	conj
8	before	before	ADP	_	10 walls	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 walls	det
10	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 collapse	obl
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 firm	cop
12	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sink	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	sink	could	It			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	collapse	present	bubbles	before the walls		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is	present			firm property	tree rules

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