Test 4 · ★★ · Heating, water pipes and drains

What would happen if there were no U-bend under the sink?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: U bend · What happens: happen, be

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Heating, water pipes and drains» 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	_	6 were	mark
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 were	expl
6	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 bend	det
8	U	U	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 bend	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 U	punct
10	bend	bend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 were	nsubj
11	under	under	ADP	_	13 sink	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sink	det
13	sink	sink	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bend	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be a condition, not said to happen	past	no U bend under the sink			there			vn exist-47.1 «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

Smells from the drain would come up into the kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smells	smell	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 drain	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 drain	det
4	drain	drain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Smells	nmod
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	up	up	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 kitchen	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kitchen	det
10	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	would	Smells from the drain			the kitchen			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The water would come out hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 come	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	would	the water					hot, out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Option 3

The sink would never empty, and the water would just sit there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sink	det
2	sink	sink	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 empty	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 empty	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 empty	advmod
5	empty	empty	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sit	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sit	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sit	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 sit	aux
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 sit	advmod
12	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 empty	conj
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 sit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not empty	would	the sink						vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source
2	sit	would	the water			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The tap would stop working

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tap	det
2	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	the tap						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	work	gerund	the tap not said here						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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