Test 4 · ★★ · Fuels, the Sun and saving energy

What would happen if everyone kept using oil much faster than it forms?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone, oil · What happens: happen, keep, use, form · To what, where: oil

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 32 «Fuels, the Sun and saving energy» 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 kept	mark
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 kept	nsubj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	xcomp
8	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 using	obj
9	much	much	ADV	_	10 faster	advmod
10	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 using	advmod
11	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 forms	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 forms	nsubj
13	forms	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 faster	advcl
14	?	?	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	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	everyone			tree rules
3	use	gerund	everyone not said here	oil	fast property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=Patient
4	form	present	oil			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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

It would turn into coal

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 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 coal	case
5	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It			coal			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into coal=Trajectory

Option 2

Nothing, oil never runs out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 runs	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 oil	punct
3	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 runs	advmod
5	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 runs	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not run out	present	Nothing						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It would grow back each spring

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 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 grow	advmod
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 spring	det
6	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow back	would	It				spring		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It would eventually run out

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 run	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 run	aux
3	eventually	eventually	ADV	_	4 run	advmod
4	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 run	compound:prt

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

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