Test 5 · Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks

What would happen if a tall church had no lightning rod and was struck?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tall church · What happens: happen, have, strike · To what, where: lightning rod

This is test 5 of lesson 26 «Static electricity: balloons, hair and sparks» 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 had	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 church	det
6	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 church	amod
7	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 rod	det
10	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rod	compound
11	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 struck	cc
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 struck	aux:pass
14	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 had	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	a tall church	no lightning rod	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=Patient
3	strike	past · passive	a tall church not said here		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»

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

Nothing, churches cannot be struck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 struck	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 churches	punct
3	churches	church	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nothing	conj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 struck	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 struck	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 struck	aux:pass
7	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not strike	can · passive		Nothing					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The lightning could pass through the building and damage it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lightning	det
2	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pass	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pass	aux
4	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 building	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 building	det
7	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pass	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 damage	cc
9	damage	damage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pass	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 damage	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	could	the lightning			the building			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through building=Location
2	damage	infinitive	the lightning not said here	lightning					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The lightning would bounce straight back up into the storm cloud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lightning	det
2	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bounce	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bounce	aux
4	bounce	bounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 back	advmod
6	back	back	ADV	_	7 up	advmod
7	up	up	ADV	_	4 bounce	advmod
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 cloud	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cloud	det
10	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cloud	compound
11	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bounce	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bounce	would	the lightning			the storm cloud			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into cloud=Destination

Option 4

The church would store the charge for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 church	det
2	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 store	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 store	aux
4	store	store	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 charge	det
6	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 store	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 ever	case
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 store	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	would	the church	the charge					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme

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