Test 5 · Earthquakes

What would happen if a city built all its houses from heavy bricks with no steel?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: city · What happens: happen, build · To what, where: houses, heavy bricks

This is test 5 of lesson 44 «Earthquakes» 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	_	7 built	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 city	det
6	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 built	nsubj
7	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 houses	det:predet
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 houses	nmod:poss
10	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 built	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 bricks	case
12	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bricks	amod
13	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 houses	nmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 steel	case
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 steel	det
16	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bricks	nmod
17	?	?	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	build a condition, not said to happen	participle	a city	city's houses		heavy bricks with no steel			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset house=Product from brick=Material

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

They would be the safest houses possible, as bricks are heavy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 possible	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 possible	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 possible	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 houses	det
5	safest	safe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 houses	amod
6	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 possible	nsubj
7	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 heavy	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 heavy	mark
10	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 heavy	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 heavy	cop
12	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 possible	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	They					possible property	tree rules
2	is	present	bricks					heavy property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A strong quake would bring many down and cause many deaths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 quake	det
2	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 quake	amod
3	quake	quake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bring	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bring	aux
5	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bring	obj
7	down	down	ADV	_	5 bring	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cause	cc
9	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bring	conj
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 deaths	amod
11	deaths	death	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cause	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring down	would	a strong quake	many				down property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent many=Theme
2	cause	present	a strong quake not said here	many deaths					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient

Option 3

The bricks would soak up all the shaking like a sponge does

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bricks	det
2	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 soak	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 soak	aux
4	soak	soak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 soak	compound:prt
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 shaking	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shaking	det
8	shaking	shaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soak	obj
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 does	mark
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sponge	det
11	sponge	sponge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 does	nsubj
12	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 soak	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak up	would	the bricks	all shaking					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent shaking=Source
2	do	present	a sponge						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nothing, bricks cannot fall down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 bricks	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fall	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fall	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 fall	advmod
6	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 fall	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fall down	can	Nothing bricks						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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