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Test 11 · ★★ · Ice on ponds and cold water in winter

Lily: «Grandad did it in '63, so it's fine». What would happen if she tried?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lily · What happens: do, be, happen, try · To what, where: it, 63

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 74 «Ice on ponds and cold water in winter» of the medicine 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: Lily: «Grandad did it in '63, so it's fine».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Lily	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 63	case
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 63	punct
9	63	63	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 did	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fine	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 fine	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fine	expl
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fine	cop
14	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 did	conj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 fine	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	past	Lily	it		63			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	is in a quote	present	Lily not said here					fine property	tree rules

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 she tried?

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	_	6 tried	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tried	nsubj
6	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	?	?	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	try a condition, not said to happen	past	Lily						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The lake would freeze thicker for her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lake	det
2	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 freeze	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 freeze	aux
4	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 freeze	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 freeze	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	would	the lake					for her = she; thick property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

She'd be fine; ice never changes over the years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fine	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 fine	cop
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 changes	punct
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 changes	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 changes	advmod
8	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	conj
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 years	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 years	det
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 changes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	She					fine property	tree rules
2	not change	present	ice				year		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Grandad's old skates would keep her up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 skates	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Grandad	case
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 skates	amod
4	skates	skate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 keep	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	aux
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keep	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 keep	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep up	would	Grandad's old skates	her = she					vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She could fall through much thinner ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fall	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	through	through	ADV	_	3 fall	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 thinner	advmod
6	thinner	thin	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 ice	amod
7	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall through	could	She	thinner ice				through property	vn occur-48.3 «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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