Test 4 · Saturn's moons

If Saturn's tiny shepherd moons vanished, what would most likely happen to the narrow F ring?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tiny shepherd moons · What happens: vanish, happen

This is test 4 of lesson 13 «Saturn's moons» of the space 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 vanished	mark
2	Saturn	Saturn	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 moons	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Saturn	case
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 moons	amod
5	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 moons	compound
6	moons	moon	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 vanished	nsubj
7	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 happen	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 happen	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 happen	aux
11	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	12 likely	advmod
12	likely	likely	ADV	_	13 happen	advmod
13	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 vanished	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	18 ring	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ring	det
16	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ring	amod
17	F	f	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ring	compound
18	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 happen	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 vanished	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	Saturn's tiny shepherd moons						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	happen	would						to the narrow F ring; likely property	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 · ✓ the right answer

It would spread out and lose its sharp edges

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 spread	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	aux
3	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 spread	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lose	cc
6	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 spread	conj
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 edges	nmod:poss
8	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 edges	amod
9	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread out	would	It						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lose	infinitive		its sharp edges					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=Eventuality

Option 2

It would fall into Titan

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 fall	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 Titan	case
5	Titan	Titan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	It					into Titan result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into titan=Result

Option 3

It would become a new moon

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 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 moon	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 moon	amod
6	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	It	a new moon					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It would turn into liquid

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 liquid	case
5	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

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

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