Test 8 · ★ · Living with friction: oil, wheels and grip

What would happen to a car engine with no oil?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: happen

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 7 «Living with friction: oil, wheels and grip» 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	to	to	ADP	_	7 engine	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 engine	det
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 engine	compound
7	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 oil	case
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 oil	det
10	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a car engine; with no oil	vn occur-48.3-1 «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

It would use less petrol

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 use	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 use	aux
3	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 petrol	amod
5	petrol	petrol	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 use	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	would	It	less petrol					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petrol=Patient

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

Its parts would rub, overheat and seize

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 parts	nmod:poss
2	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rub	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 rub	aux
4	rub	rub	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 overheat	punct
6	overheat	overheat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rub	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 seize	cc
8	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rub	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	rub	would	Its parts	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
2	overheat	infinitive	Its parts not said here	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	seize	infinitive	Its parts not said here	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

It would go faster

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 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	It					fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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