Test 4 · ★★ · Minerals and crystals

What would happen if you let a saucer of salty water evaporate on a windowsill?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, saucer · What happens: happen, let, evaporate · To what, where: saucer, windowsill

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 50 «Minerals and crystals» 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	_	6 let	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 let	nsubj
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 saucer	det
8	saucer	saucer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 water	amod
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saucer	nmod
12	evaporate	evaporate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 windowsill	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 windowsill	det
15	windowsill	windowsill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 evaporate	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let a condition, not said to happen	present	you	a saucer of salty water		tree rules
3	evaporate	infinitive	a saucer of salty water not said here		a windowsill	vn other_cos-45.4 «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

The salt would slowly turn into quartz

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 salt	det
2	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 turn	aux
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 turn	advmod
5	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 quartz	case
7	quartz	quartz	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	obl

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

Option 2

Nothing, salt disappears with the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 salt	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disappears	nsubj
4	disappears	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disappears	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	present	Nothing salt					with the water	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The water would turn into tiny ice crystals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 crystals	case
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 crystals	amod
7	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crystals	compound
8	crystals	crystal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the water			tiny ice crystals			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into crystal=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Small cube-shaped salt crystals would grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crystals	amod
2	cube	cube	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shaped	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 cube	punct
4	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 crystals	amod
5	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crystals	compound
6	crystals	crystal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grow	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 grow	aux
8	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shape	participle							vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	grow	would	Small shaped salt crystals						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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