Test 5 · Deserts

What would happen to a desert town if its oasis well dried up for good?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, dry up · To what, where: oasis

This is test 5 of lesson 18 «Deserts» 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	_	7 town	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 town	det
6	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 town	compound
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 dried	mark
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 oasis	nmod:poss
10	oasis	oasis	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dried	nsubj:pass
11	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 dried	advmod
12	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 dried	compound:prt
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 good	case
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dried	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a desert town	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dry up a condition, not said to happen	participle · passive		town's oasis				for good; well property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

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 sand would turn into soil

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sand	det
2	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 soil	case
6	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl

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

Option 2

Rain would start falling instead to fill the well up again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 start	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 start	aux
3	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 start	xcomp
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	7 fill	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fill	mark
7	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 start	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 well	det
9	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fill	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	7 fill	compound:prt
11	again	again	ADV	_	7 fill	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	Rain				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	fall	gerund	Rain not said here				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fill up	to-infinitive	Rain not said here	the well	again	instead property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent well=Patient

Option 3

Nothing, people can live there quite well without water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 people	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 live	aux
5	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 live	advmod
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 well	advmod
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 live	advmod
9	without	without	ADP	_	10 water	case
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	can	Nothing people			there		without water; well property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

People would have to bring water from far away or leave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 bring	mark
5	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bring	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 away	case
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 away	advmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	5 bring	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 leave	cc
11	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bring	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	would	People		tree rules
2	bring	to-infinitive	People not said here	water	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from away=Initial_Location
3	leave	infinitive	People not said here		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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