Test 4 · ★★ · Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes

What would happen today if a Tambora-size eruption happened again?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: size eruption · What happens: happen

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 47 «Famous eruptions and living with volcanoes» 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	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl:unmarked
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 happened	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 eruption	det
7	Tambora	Tambora	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 size	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Tambora	punct
9	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eruption	compound
10	eruption	eruption	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 happened	nsubj
11	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
12	again	again	ADV	_	11 happened	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					today		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	happen a condition, not said to happen	past	a size eruption				again		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Nothing, modern cities have roofs that stop ash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 have	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cities	amod
4	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 stop	nsubj
8	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 roofs	acl:relcl
9	ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	modern cities	Nothing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Patient
2	stop	present	roofs	ash					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality ash=Eventuality

Option 2

The Earth would get much warmer for a whole century

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 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 warmer	advmod
6	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 century	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 century	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 century	amod
10	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 warmer	obl

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Harvests could fail around the world for a year or more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Harvests	harvest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fail	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fail	aux
3	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	around	around	ADP	_	6 world	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 world	det
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fail	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 year	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fail	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 more	cc
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 year	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail	could	Harvests			the world	year		vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Only Indonesia would notice anything at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 notice	advmod
2	Indonesia	Indonesia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 notice	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 notice	aux
4	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 notice	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 notice	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	would	Indonesia	anything		all			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

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