Test 3 · Light and shadows

What would happen if the Sun suddenly went out?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sun · What happens: happen, go out

This is test 3 of lesson 20 «Light and shadows» 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	_	8 went	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sun	det
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
7	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 went	compound:prt
10	?	?	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	go out a condition, not said to happen	past	the Sun					suddenly property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

It would stay light for ever

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 stay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 ever	case
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 stay	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

We would not know for about eight minutes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 minutes	case
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 eight	advmod
7	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 minutes	nummod
8	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 know	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	would	We				minute		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It would be dark a year later

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 dark	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 dark	cop
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dark	obl:unmarked
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 dark	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It				year	dark, late property	tree rules

Option 4

It would be dark at once, with no delay of any kind

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 dark	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dark	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 dark	cop
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 dark	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 delay	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 delay	case
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 delay	det
10	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dark	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 kind	case
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 kind	det
13	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 delay	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					dark property	tree rules

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