Test 5 · The Industrial Revolution

What would happen to a factory town with no sewers or clean water?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen

This is test 5 of lesson 30 «The Industrial Revolution» 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	_	7 town	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 town	det
6	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 town	compound
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 sewers	case
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 sewers	det
10	sewers	sewer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 town	nmod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 water	cc
12	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 water	amod
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sewers	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a factory town with no sewers or clean water	vn occur-48.3-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

The factories would make more cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 factories	det
2	factories	factory	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 cloth	amod
6	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	the factories	more cloth					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cloth=Product

Option 2

The town would move itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 town	det
2	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 move	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 move	aux
4	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 move	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	would	the town	town					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent itself=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

People would get sick more often

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 often	advmod
6	often	often	ADV	_	3 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	People					often, sick property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Nothing, dirt is harmless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 dirt	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 harmless	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 harmless	cop
5	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing dirt					harmless property	tree rules

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