Test 5 · ★ · Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals

What could happen to a party balloon let go in Texas?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: party balloon · What happens: happen, let, go · To what, where: party balloon, Texas

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 71 «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals» 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	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 balloon	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 balloon	det
6	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 balloon	compound
7	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 balloon	acl
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Texas	case
11	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	could				to a party balloon	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let	participle		a party balloon not said here			tree rules
3	go	infinitive	a party balloon not said here		Texas		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in texas=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

It will turn into rain

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	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 rain	case
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

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

Option 2

It will land back where it started

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 land	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 land	aux
3	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 land	advmod
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 started	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 started	nsubj
7	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 land	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land back	future	It						vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	start	past	it						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It may come down far away and harm 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	3 come	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 away	advmod
6	away	away	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 harm	cc
8	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bird	det
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 harm	obj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 turtle	cc
12	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bird	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	may	It					away, down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	harm	infinitive		a bird or turtle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer

Option 4

It will float high in the sky for ever and never come down at all

The tree, 15 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 float	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 float	aux
3	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 float	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sky	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sky	det
7	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 float	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 ever	case
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 float	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 come	cc
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 come	advmod
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 float	conj
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	future	It			the sky		high property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Trajectory
2	not come down	infinitive				all		down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

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