Test 5 · ★ · Water, deserts and the shape of the land

What would happen if you left a bowl of seawater on a sunny windowsill for a week?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, leave · To what, where: bowl, sunny windowsill

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 16 «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths 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	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 left	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 left	nsubj
6	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bowl	det
8	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 seawater	case
10	seawater	seawater	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bowl	nmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 windowsill	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 windowsill	det
13	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 windowsill	amod
14	windowsill	windowsill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 week	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 week	det
17	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obl
18	?	?	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	leave a condition, not said to happen	past	you	a bowl of seawater		a sunny windowsill	week		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme on windowsill=Location

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 salt would go off and leave fresh water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 salt	det
2	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 go	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 leave	cc
7	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
8	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 water	amod
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	would	the salt						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	leave	infinitive	the salt not said here	fresh water					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 2

The water would slowly turn into a block of ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 turn	aux
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 turn	advmod
5	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 block	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 block	det
8	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 ice	case
10	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 block	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the water			a block of ice		slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into block=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The water would go and leave salt behind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 leave	cc
6	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
7	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leave	obj
8	behind	behind	ADV	_	6 leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	the water						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	infinitive	the water not said here	salt				behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Theme

Option 4

Nothing, because seawater never evaporates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 evaporates	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 seawater	punct
3	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 seawater	case
4	seawater	seawater	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 evaporates	advmod
6	evaporates	evaporate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not evaporate	present	Nothing						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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