Test 7 · Coasts and caves

What would happen if a coast were made only of hard rock of one kind?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, make · To what, where: coast

This is test 7 of lesson 55 «Coasts and caves» 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	_	8 made	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 coast	det
6	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 made	aux:pass
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
9	only	only	ADV	_	12 rock	advmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 rock	case
11	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rock	amod
12	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 kind	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 kind	nummod
15	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rock	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		a coast				of hard rock of one kind	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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 right answer

It would wear back evenly, with fewer headlands and bays

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 wear	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 wear	aux
3	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 wear	advmod
5	evenly	evenly	ADV	_	3 wear	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 headlands	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 headlands	case
8	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 headlands	amod
9	headlands	headland	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wear	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 bays	cc
11	bays	bay	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 headlands	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear back	would	It					with fewer headlands and bays; evenly property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It would turn into limestone

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 limestone	case
5	limestone	limestone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It would form many deep bays, one after another along the shore

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 form	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 form	aux
3	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bays	amod
5	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bays	amod
6	bays	bay	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 form	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 bays	appos
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 another	case
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 one	nmod
11	along	along	ADP	_	13 shore	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shore	det
13	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 form	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form	would	It	many deep bays				along the shore	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bay=Theme

Option 4

It would never be touched by waves

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	5 touched	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 touched	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 touched	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 touched	aux:pass
5	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 waves	case
7	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 touched	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	would · passive	waves	It					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme

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