Test 5 · ★ · The Arctic and Antarctica

What would happen to London if all of Antarctica's ice melted?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: ice · What happens: happen, melt · To what, where: London

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 15 «The Arctic and Antarctica» 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	_	5 London	case
5	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 melted	mark
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 Antarctica	det
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Antarctica	case
9	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 ice	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Antarctica	case
11	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 melted	nsubj
12	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would			London				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	melt a condition, not said to happen	participle	all Antarctica's ice						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 Thames would freeze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Thames	det
2	Thames	Thames	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 freeze	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 freeze	aux
4	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	would	the Thames						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

London would get drier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	drier	dry	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	London					dry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

It would be flooded, because sea levels would rise by about 58 metres

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 flooded	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 flooded	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 flooded	aux:pass
4	flooded	flood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rise	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 rise	mark
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 levels	compound
8	levels	level	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rise	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 rise	aux
10	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 flooded	conj
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 metres	case
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 58	advmod
13	58	58	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 metres	nummod
14	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rise	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flood	would · passive		It					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	rise	would	sea levels					by 58 metres	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by metre=Location

Option 4

Nothing, the meltwater would just stay where it is, frozen in the south

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 stay	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 meltwater	det
4	meltwater	meltwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stay	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 stay	aux
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 stay	advmod
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 is	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 is	nsubj
10	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stay	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 frozen	punct
12	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 stay	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 south	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 south	det
15	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 frozen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	stay	would	Nothing		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	present	meltwater		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	freeze	participle	Nothing not said here	the south	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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