Test 7 · ★★ · Metals, mining and what they cost

What would happen to a blacksmith's iron sword if he added a little carbon to make steel?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: happen, add, make · To what, where: little carbon, steel

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 60 «Metals, mining and what they cost» 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	_	9 sword	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 blacksmith	det
6	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sword	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 blacksmith	case
8	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sword	compound
9	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 added	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 added	nsubj
12	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 carbon	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 carbon	amod
15	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 added	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 make	mark
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 added	advcl
18	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 make	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would			to a blacksmith's iron sword	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	add speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	he	a little carbon		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carbon=Patient
3	make	to-infinitive	he not said here	steel		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset steel=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

It would turn into gold

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

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

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

It would become stronger

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 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 become	xcomp

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

Option 3

It would melt at room temperature

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 melt	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 melt	aux
3	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 temperature	case
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 temperature	compound
6	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 melt	obl

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

Option 4

It would rust away at once

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 rust	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 rust	aux
3	rust	rust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 rust	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 rust	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rust away	would	It					away property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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