Test 6 · ★ · Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons

What would a submarine do if it could not blow its tanks?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: submarine · What happens: not blow · To what, where: tanks

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 12 «Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons» 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	10 blow	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 What	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 submarine	det
4	submarine	submarine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 would	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 blow	aux
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 blow	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 blow	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 blow	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 blow	advmod
10	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 tanks	nmod:poss
12	tanks	tank	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 blow	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 blow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not blow	could · present · do-support	submarine	submarine's tanks					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent what=Beneficiary tank=Product

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 · ✓ the right answer

It could not come back up

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	4 come	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 come	advmod
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	up	up	ADV	_	4 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come back	could	It						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would rise faster

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 rise	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 rise	aux
3	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 rise	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	would	It					fast property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It would float on its side

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 float	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 float	aux
3	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 side	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 side	nmod:poss
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 float	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	would	It			its side			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory

Option 4

It would turn into a boat

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 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 boat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boat	det
6	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It			a boat			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into boat=Trajectory

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