Test 8 · Maps and scale

What would happen to a satnav if it could only hear one satellite?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: satnav · What happens: happen, hear · To what, where: one satellite

This is test 8 of lesson 1 «Maps and scale» of the geography 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	_	6 satnav	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 satnav	det
6	satnav	satnav	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 hear	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hear	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 hear	aux
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 hear	advmod
11	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happen	advcl
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 satellite	nummod
13	satellite	satellite	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hear	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a satnav	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear a condition, not said to happen	could	satnav	one satellite					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer satellite=Stimulus

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, one satellite is enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 enough	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 satellite	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 satellite	nummod
4	satellite	satellite	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 enough	cop
6	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					enough property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would be twice as accurate

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	6 accurate	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 accurate	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 accurate	cop
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 accurate	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 accurate	advmod
6	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					accurate, twice property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It could not work out where it is

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 work	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 work	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 work	advmod
4	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 work	compound:prt
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 work	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 where	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 where	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not work out	could	It						vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					where property	tree rules

Option 4

It would show the time but also the place exactly

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 show	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 show	aux
3	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 show	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 place	cc
7	also	also	ADV	_	9 place	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 place	det
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 time	conj
10	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	3 show	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	would	It				time	exactly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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