Test 10 · Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push

What would happen if you put the walnut at the far end of the nutcracker handles?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, put · To what, where: walnut, far end

This is test 10 of lesson 33 «Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push» 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 put	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 put	nsubj
6	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 walnut	det
8	walnut	walnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
11	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 end	amod
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 handles	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 handles	det
15	nutcracker	nutcracker	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 handles	compound
16	handles	handle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 end	nmod
17	?	?	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	put a condition, not said to happen	present	you	the walnut			at the far end of the nutcracker handles		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent walnut=Theme at end=Destination

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 · ✓ the right answer

It would be much harder to crack

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	5 harder	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 harder	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 harder	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 harder	advmod
5	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 crack	mark
7	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 harder	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					hard property	tree rules
2	crack	to-infinitive							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nothing would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It would crack much more easily

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	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 crack	aux
3	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 crack	advmod
6	easily	easily	ADV	_	3 crack	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	would	It					easily property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It would fly out and crack by itself

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 fly	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	out	out	ADV	_	3 fly	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 crack	cc
6	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fly	conj
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 itself	case
8	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 crack	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly out	would	It					out property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	crack	infinitive						by itself = it	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by itself=Location

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