Test 5 · Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard

What would happen on a wet road with tyres worn smooth?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, wear · To what, where: wet road, tyres

This is test 5 of lesson 17 «Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard» 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	on	on	ADP	_	7 road	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 road	det
6	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 road	amod
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 tyres	case
9	tyres	tyre	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 road	nmod
10	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 tyres	acl
11	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 worn	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				a wet road with tyres			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on road=Location
2	wear	participle		tyres not said here				smooth property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=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

The tyres would fill up with rainwater and the car would float away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tyres	det
2	tyres	tyre	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fill	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fill	aux
4	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 fill	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 rainwater	case
7	rainwater	rainwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fill	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 float	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 car	det
10	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 float	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 float	aux
12	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fill	conj
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 float	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill up	would	the tyres					with rainwater	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with rainwater=Instrument
2	float away	would	the car					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nothing, tread doesn't matter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 tread	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	tread	tread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 matter	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 matter	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 matter	advmod
6	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	Nothing tread						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The car would grip badly and take longer to stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 car	det
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grip	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grip	aux
4	grip	grip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 grip	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 take	cc
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 grip	conj
8	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 take	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 stop	mark
10	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 take	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	grip	would	the car	badly property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	take	infinitive	the car not said here	long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	stop	to-infinitive	the car not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

It would grip better than new tyres

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 grip	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grip	aux
3	grip	grip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 grip	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 tyres	case
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tyres	amod
7	tyres	tyre	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grip	would	It					well property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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