Test 5 · ★★ · Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums

What would happen if you tried to breathe in with your chest unable to get any bigger?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, try, breathe in, get · To what, where: bigger

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 16 «Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums» 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	to	to	PART	_	8 breathe	mark
8	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tried	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	8 breathe	compound:prt
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 chest	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 chest	nmod:poss
12	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 breathe	obl
13	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 breathe	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 get	mark
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 unable	xcomp
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 bigger	det
17	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 get	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	breathe in not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		with your chest	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	get	to-infinitive	you not said here	any bigger		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer big=Stimulus

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

Air would rush in even faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rush	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 rush	aux
3	rush	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 rush	advmod
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 faster	advmod
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 rush	advmod

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

Option 2

You would breathe through your ears instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 breathe	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 breathe	aux
3	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 ears	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ears	nmod:poss
6	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 breathe	obl
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 breathe	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	would	You			your ears		instead property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

No air would come in, because the pressure inside could not drop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 air	det
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 drop	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 drop	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pressure	det
9	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drop	nsubj
10	inside	inside	ADV	_	9 pressure	advmod
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 drop	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 drop	advmod
13	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in	would	no air						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not drop	could	the pressure						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Your heart would do the breathing for you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 heart	nmod:poss
2	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 breathing	det
6	breathing	breathing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	would	Your heart	the breathing				for you	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breathing=Eventuality

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