Test 7 · ★ · Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads

What would happen to a city if its aqueduct broke?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: aqueduct · What happens: happen, break

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 14 «Rome: the empire, the legions and the roads» of the history 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 city	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 city	det
6	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 broke	mark
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 aqueduct	nmod:poss
9	aqueduct	aqueduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 broke	nsubj
10	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a city	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	break a condition, not said to happen	past	city's aqueduct						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP 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 · ✓ the right answer

It would run short of 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 run	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 run	xcomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 short	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	would	It					short property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nothing, it rained every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 rained	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rained	nsubj
4	rained	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rained	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rain	past	Nothing				day		vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It would get far too much water and flood the streets

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	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 much	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 flood	cc
9	flood	flood	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 get	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 streets	det
11	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 flood	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	It	much water					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus
2	flood	infinitive		the streets					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent street=Patient

Option 4

It would move to the hills

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 move	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 move	aux
3	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 hills	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hills	det
6	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 move	obl

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

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