Test 4 · ★ · Uranus and Neptune

If Uranus had no methane in its air, how would its colour change?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Uranus, air · What happens: have, change · To what, where: methane, air

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 14 «Uranus and Neptune» 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	_	3 had	mark
2	Uranus	Uranus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 methane	det
5	methane	methane	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 air	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 air	nmod:poss
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 methane	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 change	punct
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 change	advmod
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 change	aux
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 change	nmod:poss
13	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 change	compound
14	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 methane	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Uranus	no methane and air's colour change		its air			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent methane=Patient
2	change		air						nom change «event intransitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

It would glow like a star

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 glow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 glow	aux
3	glow	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 star	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 star	det
6	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	would	It					like a star	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It would lose most of its blue-green colour

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 lose	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 lose	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	10 colour	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 colour	nmod:poss
7	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 green	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 blue	punct
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 colour	amod
10	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 most	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	It	most of its green colour					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Eventuality

Option 3

It would turn bright red

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	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turn	xcomp
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It					bright, red property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It would turn much bluer and darker than before

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	much	much	ADV	_	5 bluer	advmod
5	bluer	blue	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 turn	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 darker	cc
7	darker	dark	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 bluer	conj
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 before	case
9	before	before	ADV	_	5 bluer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It					blue property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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