Test 4 · How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people

What would happen if the stop button popped straight back up after being pressed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: stop button · What happens: happen, pop, press

This is test 4 of lesson 1 «How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people» of the technology 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	_	8 popped	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 button	det
6	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 button	compound
7	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 popped	nsubj
8	popped	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	straight	straight	ADV	_	10 back	advmod
10	back	back	ADV	_	11 up	advmod
11	up	up	ADV	_	8 popped	advmod
12	after	after	SCONJ	_	14 pressed	mark
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 pressed	aux:pass
14	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 popped	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	happen	would		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pop a condition, not said to happen	past	the stop button	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	press	gerund · passive	the stop button not said here	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»

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

The machine could start again while someone was still fixing it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 machine	det
2	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 start	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 start	aux
4	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 start	advmod
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 fixing	mark
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 fixing	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fixing	aux
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 fixing	advmod
10	fixing	fix	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 start	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fixing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	could	the machine				again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	fix	past · progressive	someone	machine			still		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

The machine would switch itself off for ever and never start again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 machine	det
2	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 switch	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 switch	aux
4	switch	switch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 switch	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	4 switch	compound:prt
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 ever	case
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 switch	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 start	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 start	advmod
11	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 switch	conj
12	again	again	ADV	_	11 start	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	switch off	would	the machine	machine					vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
2	not start	infinitive	the machine not said here				again		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

The machine would start working faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 machine	det
2	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 start	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 start	aux
4	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 start	xcomp
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 working	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	the machine						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	work	gerund	the machine not said here					fast property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nothing at all would be different

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 different	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 different	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 different	cop
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Nothing					different property	tree rules

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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