Test 3 · ★ · Baths, water at home and doors

What happens if you keep flushing a blocked toilet?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, keep, flush, block · To what, where: blocked toilet

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 109 «Baths, water at home and doors» of the everyday 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	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 keep	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 happens	advcl
6	flushing	flush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 toilet	det
8	blocked	block	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 toilet	amod
9	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flushing	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	present			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	present	you		tree rules
3	flush	gerund	you not said here	a blocked toilet	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent toilet=Source
4	block	participle			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

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 makes the water go cleaner

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
6	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the water					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	the water not said here	cleaner					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cleaner=Theme

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

It overflows onto the floor

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	2 overflows	nsubj
2	overflows	overflow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	onto	onto	ADP	_	5 floor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 floor	det
5	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 overflows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overflow	present	It			the floor			tree rules

Option 3

The toilet switches itself off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 toilet	det
2	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 switches	nsubj
3	switches	switch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 switches	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	3 switches	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	switch off	present	the toilet	toilet					vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient

Option 4

It clears the block every time

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	2 clears	nsubj
2	clears	clear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 block	det
4	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clears	obj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clears	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clear	present	It	the block			time		vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent block=Source

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