Test 4 · ★ · Coal, oil and gas

What would happen if we kept burning fossil fuels at today's rate for centuries?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we · What happens: happen, keep, burn · To what, where: fossil fuels, rate

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 59 «Coal, oil and gas» 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 kept	mark
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	xcomp
8	fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fuels	compound
9	fuels	fuel	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 burning	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 rate	case
11	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rate	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 today	case
13	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burning	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 centuries	case
15	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 burning	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	we				tree rules
3	burn	gerund	we not said here	fossil fuels	today's rate	century	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fuel=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

The climate would cool down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 climate	det
2	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cool	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cool	aux
4	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 cool	compound:prt

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They would run out, and the warming would get much worse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 run	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 run	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 get	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 get	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 warming	det
8	warming	warming	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 get	aux
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 run	advcl
11	much	much	ADV	_	12 worse	advmod
12	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run out	would	They						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	would	the warming					bad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

The air would get cleaner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the air	cleaner					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cleaner=Stimulus

Option 4

They would grow back faster than we can ever use them up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 grow	advmod
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	advmod
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	10 use	mark
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 use	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 use	aux
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 use	advmod
10	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grow	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 use	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 use	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow back	would	They					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use up	can	we	them = they			ever		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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