Test 7 · ★ · Smells that warn

If no smell were added to gas, what would happen?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gas · What happens: add, happen · To what, where: smell

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 13 «Smells that warn» 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 added	mark
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 smell	det
3	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 added	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 added	aux:pass
5	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 gas	case
7	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 added	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 happen	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 happen	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 happen	aux
11	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 gas	acl:relcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 added	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	past · passive		no smell				to gas	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to gas=Co-Patient
2	happen	would	gas						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

People would not notice leaks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 notice	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 notice	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 notice	advmod
4	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	leaks	leak	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 notice	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not notice	would	People	leaks					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer leak=Stimulus

Option 2

Gas would stop burning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	Gas						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	burn	gerund	Gas not said here						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Cookers would need no flame

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cookers	cooker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 need	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 need	aux
3	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 flame	det
5	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	would	Cookers	no flame					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot flame=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Leaks would be noticed sooner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leaks	leak	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 noticed	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 noticed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 noticed	aux:pass
4	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 noticed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	would · passive		Leaks				soon property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus

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