Test 5 · The air presses on everything

What would happen if you tried the upside-down card trick with a bent, floppy card and a wobble?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, try · To what, where: upside down card trick

This is test 5 of lesson 14 «The air presses on everything» 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 tried	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tried	nsubj
6	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 trick	det
8	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trick	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 down	punct
10	down	down	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 trick	amod
11	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trick	compound
12	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tried	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	18 card	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 card	det
15	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 card	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bent	punct
17	floppy	floppy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 card	amod
18	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trick	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wobble	cc
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 wobble	det
21	wobble	wobble	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 card	conj
22	?	?	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	try a condition, not said to happen	past	you	the upside down card trick				with a bent floppy card and a wobble	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent trick=Patient with card=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 · ← Mova's choice

The water would float up out of the glass

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 float	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 float	aux
4	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 float	compound:prt
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 glass	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 glass	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 glass	det
9	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 float	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float up	would	the water			the glass			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out glass=Trajectory

Option 2

The water would still stay in for ever

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 stay	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stay	aux
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 stay	advmod
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 stay	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 ever	case
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay in	would	the water				still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Air gets in and the water pours out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 gets	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 pours	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pours	nsubj
7	pours	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 gets	conj
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 pours	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in	present	Air						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	pour out	present	the water						vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 4

The card would stick even harder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 card	det
2	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stick	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stick	aux
4	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 harder	advmod
6	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 stick	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	would	the card						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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