Test 4 · ★ · Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang

"if u drop a penny off the shard it kills someone, fact" What would really happen?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: u, penny, fact · What happens: drop, kill, happen · To what, where: penny, shard, someone

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 23 «Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang» 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 kills	punct
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 drop	mark
3	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 drop	nsubj
4	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 kills	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 penny	det
6	penny	penny	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drop	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	9 shard	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shard	det
9	shard	shard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drop	obl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kills	nsubj
11	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 kills	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fact	punct
14	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 someone	conj
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 happen	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 happen	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 happen	aux
18	really	really	ADV	_	19 happen	advmod
19	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fact	acl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 kills	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	drop a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	u	a penny	the shard	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent penny=Theme off shard=Destination
2	kill in a quote	present	penny	someone		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme
3	happen	would	fact			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

It would kill instantly, so pennies are banned

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 kill	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 kill	aux
3	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	3 kill	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 banned	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 banned	advmod
7	pennies	penny	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 banned	nsubj:pass
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 banned	aux:pass
9	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 kill	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	would	It					instantly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
2	ban	present · passive		pennies					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Air slows it; it would sting, but heavy things are still dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slows	nsubj
2	slows	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slows	obj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 sting	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sting	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 sting	aux
7	sting	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 slows	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dangerous	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 dangerous	cc
10	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 things	amod
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 dangerous	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 dangerous	cop
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 dangerous	advmod
14	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 slows	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	slow	present	Air	it			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	sting	would	Air				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	present	heavy things		still	dangerous property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It would burn up in the air

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 burn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 burn	aux
3	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 burn	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn up	would	It			the air			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location

Option 4

It would bounce back up to the top

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 bounce	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bounce	aux
3	bounce	bounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	5 up	advmod
5	up	up	ADV	_	3 bounce	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 top	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 top	det
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bounce	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bounce back	would	It			the top			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination

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