Test 8 · Continents and oceans

If Everest were dropped into the Challenger Deep, what would happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: drop, happen · To what, where: Everest, Challenger Deep

This is test 8 of lesson 5 «Continents and oceans» 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 dropped	mark
2	Everest	Everest	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dropped	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dropped	aux:pass
4	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 happen	advcl
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 Deep	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Deep	det
7	Challenger	Challenger	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Deep	compound
8	Deep	Deep	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dropped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dropped	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 happen	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 happen	aux
12	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		Everest		the Challenger Deep			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into deep=Destination
2	happen	would							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

It would fill the trench exactly

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 fill	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fill	aux
3	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trench	det
5	trench	trench	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fill	obj
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	3 fill	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	would	It	the trench				exactly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent trench=Patient

Option 2

Its peak would stick out by 2 km

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 peak	nmod:poss
2	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stick	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stick	aux
4	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 stick	compound:prt
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 km	case
7	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 km	nummod
8	km	km	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick out	would	Its peak					by 2 km	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme by km=Destination

Option 3

It would float

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 float	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 float	aux
3	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	would	It						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Its peak would still be more than 2 km under water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 peak	nmod:poss
2	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 more	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 more	aux
4	still	still	ADV	_	6 more	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 more	cop
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 km	case
8	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 km	nummod
9	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 more	obl
10	under	under	ADP	_	11 water	case
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 km	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Its peak				still	than 2 km under water; more property	tree rules

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