Test 4 · ★ · Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows

What would happen to a plastic bottle cap left on the beach?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, leave · To what, where: plastic bottle cap, beach

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 300 «Campfires, rivers, beaches, pools, floods and rainbows» 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	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 cap	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cap	det
6	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cap	amod
7	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cap	compound
8	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
9	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 cap	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 beach	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 beach	det
12	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 left	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a plastic bottle cap	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	participle		a plastic bottle cap not said here		the beach			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on beach=Location

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

It would turn into sand by morning and harm nothing

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	_	5 sand	case
5	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 morning	case
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 nothing	cc
9	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nothing	compound
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 morning	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It could be washed into the sea and eaten by a bird or turtle

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	4 washed	nsubj:pass
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 washed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 washed	aux:pass
4	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 washed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 eaten	cc
9	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 washed	conj
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 bird	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bird	det
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eaten	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 turtle	cc
14	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bird	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	could · passive		It		the sea			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	eat	participle						by a bird or turtle	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It would be eaten by crabs and do no harm

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	4 eaten	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 eaten	aux:pass
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 crabs	case
6	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eaten	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 do	cc
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	conj
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 harm	det
10	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would · passive	crabs	It					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	do	present	crabs not said here	no harm					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality

Option 4

It would dissolve safely in the water

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 dissolve	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 dissolve	aux
3	dissolve	dissolve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	safely	safely	ADV	_	3 dissolve	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dissolve	obl

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

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