Test 4 · ★ · Ships, ports and submarines

What would happen if a submarine's tanks could not be emptied of water?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, not empty · To what, where: tanks

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 24 «Ships, ports and submarines» 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	_	12 emptied	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 submarine	det
6	submarine	submarine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tanks	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 submarine	case
8	tanks	tank	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 emptied	nsubj:pass
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 emptied	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 emptied	advmod
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 emptied	aux:pass
12	emptied	empty	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 water	case
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 emptied	obl
15	?	?	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	not empty a condition, not said to happen	could · passive		a submarine's tanks				of water	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme of water=Source

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

Nothing, it would just switch on its lights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 switch	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 switch	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 switch	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 switch	advmod
6	switch	switch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 lights	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 lights	nmod:poss
9	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 switch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	switch	would	Nothing			its lights			vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	light		its = it						nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It could not rise back to the surface

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 rise	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 rise	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 rise	advmod
4	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 rise	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 surface	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 surface	det
8	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rise	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not rise back	could	It			the surface			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial_Location

Option 3

It would float up and lie on its side in the water

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 float	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 float	aux
3	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 float	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lie	cc
6	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 float	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 side	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 side	nmod:poss
9	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lie	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 water	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lie	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float up	would	It						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lie	infinitive				its side		in the water	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location

Option 4

It would rise to the top much faster than usual

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 rise	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 rise	aux
3	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 top	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 top	det
6	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rise	obl
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 faster	advmod
8	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 rise	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 usual	case
10	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 faster	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	would	It			the top		fast property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to top=Initial_Location

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