Test 3 · Climate: hot summers and hot arguments

What would happen if every country kept its Paris promises?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: country · What happens: happen, keep, promise · To what, where: Paris promises

This is test 3 of lesson 21 «Climate: hot summers and hot arguments» of the politics 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	_	7 kept	mark
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 country	det
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	nsubj
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 promises	nmod:poss
9	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 promises	compound
10	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kept	obj
11	?	?	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	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	every country	country's Paris promises	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
3	promise		country		nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

The world would quickly get colder than it was in the Ice Age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 world	det
2	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 get	xcomp
7	than	than	ADP	_	13 Age	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 Age	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Age	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 Age	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Age	det
12	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Age	compound
13	Age	Age	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 colder	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the world					cold, quickly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	world				than the Ice Age		tree rules

Option 2

Nothing at all would ever change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 change	aux
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 change	advmod
6	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Warming would be smaller than if the promises were broken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warming	warming	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smaller	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 smaller	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 smaller	cop
4	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	SCONJ	_	10 broken	mark
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 broken	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 promises	det
8	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 broken	nsubj:pass
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 broken	aux:pass
10	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 smaller	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Warming					small property	tree rules
2	break a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		the promises					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Weather would stop happening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	happening	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	Weather						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	happen	gerund	Weather not said here						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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