Test 7 · ★★★ · How stars die

If the Sun became a red giant tomorrow (it won't), what would happen to Mercury?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sun · What happens: become, happen · To what, where: red giant, Mercury

This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 19 «How stars die» 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	_	4 became	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sun	det
3	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 became	nsubj
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 happen	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 giant	det
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 giant	amod
7	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	xcomp
8	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	xcomp
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	11 wo	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wo	nsubj
11	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 became	xcomp
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 wo	advmod
13	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 wo	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 happen	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 happen	aux
17	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Mercury	case
19	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 happen	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become a condition, not said to happen	past	the Sun	a red giant					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	happen	would			Mercury				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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would be swallowed up

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	4 swallowed	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 swallowed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 swallowed	aux:pass
4	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 swallowed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow up	would · passive		It					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

It would turn into a comet

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	_	6 comet	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 comet	det
6	comet	comet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

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

Option 3

It would become a moon of the Earth

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	5 moon	det
5	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Earth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Earth	det
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 moon	nmod

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

Option 4

It would be pushed out past Pluto

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	4 pushed	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pushed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 pushed	aux:pass
4	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 pushed	compound:prt
6	past	past	ADP	_	7 Pluto	case
7	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pushed	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push out	would · passive	Pluto	It					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

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