Test 3 · ★ · Plate tectonics

What would happen if no plate ever sank into the mantle any more?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: plate · What happens: happen, sink · To what, where: mantle

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 42 «Plate tectonics» 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	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 sank	mark
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 plate	det
6	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sank	nsubj
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 sank	advmod
8	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 mantle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mantle	det
11	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sank	obl
12	any	any	ADV	_	13 more	advmod
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 sank	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sink a condition, not said to happen	past	no plate			the mantle	ever		vn other_cos-45.4 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The main force pushing plates, slab pull, would stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 force	det
2	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 force	amod
3	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stop	nsubj
4	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 force	acl
5	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pushing	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pull	punct
7	slab	slab	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pull	compound
8	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plates	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 force	punct
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 stop	aux
11	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	gerund	the main force not said here	plates and slab pull					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plate=Theme
2	stop	would	the main force						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

Plates would move much faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 move	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 move	aux
3	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 faster	advmod
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 move	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	would	Plates					fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

New mountains would grow everywhere, on every continent, very fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	New	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mountains	amod
2	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 grow	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 continent	punct
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 continent	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 continent	det
9	continent	continent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fast	punct
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 fast	advmod
12	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	New mountains			every continent		everywhere, fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on continent=Location

Option 4

The Earth would grow bigger each year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Earth	det
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	xcomp
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	the Earth				year	big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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