Test 3 · ★ · Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks

What would happen to a layer of limestone if it were buried very deep and heated without melting?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, bury, heat, melt · To what, where: limestone

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 49 «Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks» 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	_	6 layer	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 layer	det
6	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 limestone	case
8	limestone	limestone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 layer	nmod
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 buried	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 buried	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 buried	aux:pass
12	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 deep	advmod
14	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 buried	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 heated	cc
16	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 buried	conj
17	without	without	SCONJ	_	18 melting	mark
18	melting	melt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 heated	advcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would		to a layer of limestone	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bury a condition, not said to happen	past · passive	limestone	deep property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	heat	participle			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	melt	gerund			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «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

It could turn into marble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 marble	case
5	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

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

Option 2

It would turn into chalk again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 chalk	case
5	chalk	chalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
6	again	again	ADV	_	3 turn	advmod

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

Option 3

It would become basalt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	basalt	basalt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	It	basalt					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It would become sandstone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	sandstone	sandstone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	It	sandstone					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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