Test 11 · ★ · Islands, seas and lakes

What would happen to the Baltic if its rivers dried up but the straits stayed open?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: straits · What happens: happen, dry up, stay · To what, where: rivers

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 6 «Islands, seas and lakes» 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 Baltic	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Baltic	det
6	Baltic	Baltic	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 dried	mark
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 rivers	nmod:poss
9	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dried	nsubj:pass
10	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 dried	compound:prt
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 stayed	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 straits	det
14	straits	strait	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stayed	nsubj
15	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dried	conj
16	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stayed	xcomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would			to the Baltic	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dry up a condition, not said to happen	participle · passive		Baltic's rivers		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
3	stay	past	the straits		open property	vn exist-47.1 «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

It would turn into fresh water

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	_	6 water	case
5	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing would change at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing			all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It would get colder for ever

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 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 ever	case
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	It					cold property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for ever=Source

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It would grow saltier, closer to the ocean

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 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	saltier	saltier	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 closer	punct
6	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 saltier	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 ocean	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ocean	det
9	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It	saltier				to the ocean result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient saltier=Extent to ocean=Result

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