Test 8 · ★ · Petrol stations, pools and things that go bang

"mentos + coke = kitchen explosion, my mate's kitchen got destroyed" What would really happen in an open bottle?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: destroy, happen · To what, where: mentos, open bottle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	2 mentos	punct
2	mentos	mento	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 destroyed	nsubj:pass
3	+	+	SYM	_	4 coke	cc
4	coke	coke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mentos	conj
5	=	=	SYM	_	7 explosion	punct
6	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 explosion	compound
7	explosion	explosion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mentos	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kitchen	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mate	nmod:poss
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kitchen	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 mate	case
12	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mentos	conj
13	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 destroyed	aux:pass
14	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
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 destroyed	parataxis
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 bottle	case
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bottle	det
22	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bottle	amod
23	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 happen	obl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 destroyed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	destroy in a quote	past · passive		mentos + coke and kitchen explosion and my mate's kitchen					tree rules
2	happen	would				a open bottle			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in bottle=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

A blast that knocks down the walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 blast	det
2	blast	blast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 knocks	nsubj
4	knocks	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 blast	acl:relcl
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 knocks	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 walls	det
7	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 knocks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock down	present	a blast	the walls					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent wall=Patient

Option 2

The cola would catch fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cola	det
2	cola	cola	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 catch	aux
4	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	would	the cola	fire					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A fizzy fountain and a sticky mess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fountain	det
2	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fountain	amod
3	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 mess	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mess	det
6	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mess	amod
7	mess	mess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fountain	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The bottle would fly to the ceiling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bottle	det
2	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fly	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fly	aux
4	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 ceiling	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ceiling	det
7	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	would	the bottle					to the ceiling result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to ceiling=Result

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