Test 4 · ★★ · Glaciers and ice ages

What would happen to sea level if lots of ice on land melted?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lots · What happens: happen, melt

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 54 «Glaciers and ice ages» 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 level	case
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 level	compound
6	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 melted	mark
8	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 melted	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 ice	case
10	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lots	nmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 land	case
12	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ice	nmod
13	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to sea level	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	melt a condition, not said to happen	participle	lots of ice on land						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 would rise

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	would	It						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It would stay exactly the same

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 stay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 same	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	It					same property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The sea would freeze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 freeze	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 freeze	aux
4	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	would	the sea						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It would fall

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	It						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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