Test 5 · ★ · Why planes fly

What would happen if a big jet went along the runway at only 50 km/h?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big jet · What happens: happen, go · To what, where: 50 km/h

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 22 «Why planes fly» 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 went	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 jet	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 jet	amod
7	jet	jet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	along	along	ADP	_	11 runway	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 runway	det
11	runway	runway	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 km/h	case
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 50	advmod
14	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 km/h	nummod
15	km/h	km/h	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
16	?	?	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	go a condition, not said to happen	past	a big jet			50 km/h		along the runway	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along runway=Initial_Location

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

It would fly, but only very low

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 fly	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 low	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 low	cc
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 low	advmod
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 low	advmod
8	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fly	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	would	It						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would lift off slowly and gently, like a big kite in the wind

The tree, 14 words

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 lift	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lift	aux
3	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 lift	compound:prt
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 lift	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gently	cc
7	gently	gently	ADV	_	5 slowly	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kite	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 kite	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 kite	det
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 kite	amod
12	kite	kite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lift	parataxis
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 wind	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wind	det
15	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 kite	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift off	would	It					slowly property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It would not get enough lift and would stay on the ground

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 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lift	amod
6	lift	lift	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stay	cc
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 stay	aux
9	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 ground	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	would	It	enough lift					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lift=Stimulus
2	stay	would				the ground			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Location

Option 4

It would bounce up and down

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 bounce	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bounce	aux
3	bounce	bounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 bounce	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 down	cc
6	down	down	ADV	_	4 up	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bounce	would	It						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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