Test 3 · ★★ · Melting, freezing and boiling

What would happen if a bridge were built with no gaps at all?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, build · To what, where: bridge

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 24 «Melting, freezing and boiling» 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 built	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bridge	det
6	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 built	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 built	aux:pass
8	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 gaps	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 gaps	det
11	gaps	gap	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 built	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 gaps	nmod
14	?	?	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	build a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		a bridge				with no gaps at all	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme with gap=Source

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 be stronger in every way, with no weak points

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 stronger	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stronger	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 stronger	cop
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 way	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stronger	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 points	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 points	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 points	det
11	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 points	amod
12	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stronger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It			every way		with no weak points; strong property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It could crack or buckle as it grows in summer

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 crack	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 crack	aux
3	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 buckle	cc
5	buckle	buckle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 crack	conj
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 grows	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grows	nsubj
8	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 crack	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 summer	case
10	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	crack	could	It		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	buckle	infinitive			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	grow	present	it	summer	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nothing at all would happen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would	Nothing						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It would shrink away to nothing

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 shrink	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 shrink	aux
3	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 shrink	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 nothing	case
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 shrink	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrink away	would	It					to nothing result; away property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to nothing=Result

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