Test 4 · Igneous rocks and the rock cycle

What would happen to the rock cycle if the Earth's inside went completely cold?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: inside · What happens: happen, go

This is test 4 of lesson 48 «Igneous rocks and the rock cycle» 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 cycle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cycle	det
6	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cycle	compound
7	cycle	cycle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 went	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Earth	det
10	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 inside	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Earth	case
12	inside	inside	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
14	completely	completely	ADV	_	15 cold	advmod
15	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 went	xcomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to the rock cycle	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go a condition, not said to happen	past	the Earth's inside					cold property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

No melting or squeezing deep down, so new igneous and metamorphic rock would stop

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 melting	det
2	melting	melting	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stop	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 squeezing	cc
4	squeezing	squeeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 melting	conj
5	deep	deep	ADV	_	6 down	advmod
6	down	down	ADV	_	4 squeezing	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stop	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	15 stop	advmod
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rock	amod
10	igneous	igneous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rock	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 metamorphic	cc
12	metamorphic	metamorphic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 igneous	conj
13	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stop	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 stop	aux
15	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	gerund	no melting not said here					down property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	stop	would	no melting						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

The Sun would take over and melt all the rocks from above instead of from below

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 take	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	4 take	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 melt	cc
7	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 take	conj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 rocks	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rocks	det
10	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 melt	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 above	case
12	above	above	ADV	_	4 take	obl
13	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 take	advmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	13 instead	fixed
15	from	from	ADP	_	13 instead	fixed
16	below	below	ADV	_	13 instead	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take over	would	the Sun					instead property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from above=Source
2	melt	infinitive	the Sun not said here	all rocks					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient rock=Result

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing at all would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Rocks would start melting faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 start	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 start	aux
3	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	melting	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 start	xcomp
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 melting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	Rocks						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	melt	gerund	Rocks not said here					fast property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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