Test 5 · Floating and sinking: the push of the water

What would happen if you breathed all the air out while floating?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, breathe out, float · To what, where: air

This is test 5 of lesson 11 «Floating and sinking: the push of the water» of the physics 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 breathed	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 breathed	nsubj
6	breathed	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 air	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 air	det
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 breathed	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	6 breathed	compound:prt
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 floating	mark
12	floating	float	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 breathed	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	breathe out a condition, not said to happen	past	you	all air	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme
3	float	gerund	you not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2 «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

You would shoot straight up out of the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 shoot	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 shoot	aux
3	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 up	advmod
5	up	up	ADV	_	3 shoot	advmod
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 water	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shoot	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	would	You			the water			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent out water=Destination

Option 2

Nothing at all would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

You would sink a little

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 sink	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sink	aux
3	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	would	You	a little					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent little=Patient

Option 4

You would float even higher than before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 float	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 float	aux
3	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 higher	advmod
5	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 float	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 before	case
7	before	before	ADV	_	5 higher	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	would	You						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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