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Test 11 · Cities: why they grow, and how water and sewers made them…

Mila turns the tap and her teacher says, "Not everyone can do that." What would happen if a city had no clean water and no sewers?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mila, teacher, everyone, city · What happens: turn, say, do, happen, have · To what, where: tap, that, clean water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 73 «Cities: why they grow, and how water and sewers made them safe» 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

Sentence 1: Mila turns the tap and her teacher says, "Not everyone can do that."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mila	Mila	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tap	det
4	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 says	cc
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 teacher	nmod:poss
7	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 turns	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 do	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 do	punct
11	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 everyone	advmod
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 do	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 do	aux
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 says	ccomp
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 do	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 do	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Mila	the tap					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tap=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present	Mila's teacher						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do in a quote	can	everyone	that					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

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.

Sentence 2: What would happen if a city had no clean water and no sewers?

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	_	7 had	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 city	det
6	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 water	det
9	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 water	amod
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sewers	cc
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 sewers	det
13	sewers	sewer	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 water	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	a city	no clean water and no sewers					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Diseases like cholera would spread fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Diseases	disease	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spread	nsubj
2	like	like	ADP	_	3 cholera	case
3	cholera	cholera	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Diseases	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 spread	aux
5	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 spread	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	would	Diseases like cholera					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

People would be healthier than they are now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 healthier	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 healthier	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 healthier	cop
4	healthier	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	SCONJ	_	7 are	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 are	nsubj
7	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 healthier	advcl
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 are	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	People					healthy property	tree rules
2	does	present	People				now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nothing, because rain water is always clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 clean	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 clean	mark
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	compound
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 clean	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 clean	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 clean	advmod
8	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	rain water					always, clean property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The city would grow faster than ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 city	det
2	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 ever	case
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	the city					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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