Test 8 · Gemstones and precious metals

What would happen if no one checked where diamonds came from?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: one, diamonds · What happens: happen, check, come

This is test 8 of lesson 51 «Gemstones and precious metals» 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	_	7 checked	mark
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 checked	nsubj
7	checked	check	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 came	advmod
9	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 came	nsubj
10	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 checked	advcl
11	from	from	ADP	_	10 came	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	happen	would		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	check a condition, not said to happen	participle	no one	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	diamonds	vn escape-51.1-1 «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

Diamonds would slowly turn back into black carbon dust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 dust	case
7	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dust	amod
8	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dust	compound
9	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	would	Diamonds			black carbon dust		slowly property	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Diamonds mined to pay for wars could be sold freely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mined	nsubj
2	mined	mine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 pay	mark
4	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 mined	xcomp
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 sold	mark
6	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sold	nsubj:pass
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 sold	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 sold	aux:pass
9	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 pay	advcl
10	freely	freely	ADV	_	9 sold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mine	past	Diamonds			tree rules
2	pay	to-infinitive	Diamonds not said here			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	sell	could · passive		wars	freely property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

Diamonds would stop being hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 hard	cop
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	Diamonds						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	gerund	Diamonds not said here					hard property	tree rules

Option 4

Diamonds would all become cheap glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 become	advmod
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 glass	amod
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	xcomp

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

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