Test 6 · Bicycles and other wheels

What would happen if you changed to the smallest back cog to climb a steep hill?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, change, climb · To what, where: steep hill

This is test 6 of lesson 25 «Bicycles and other wheels» 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 changed	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 changed	nsubj
6	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 cog	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cog	det
9	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 cog	amod
10	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cog	compound
11	cog	cog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 changed	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 climb	mark
13	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 changed	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hill	det
15	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hill	amod
16	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 climb	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	change a condition, not said to happen	past	you		to the smallest back cog result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to cog=Result
3	climb	to-infinitive	you not said here	a steep hill		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hill=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 chain would lock the pedals in place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chain	det
2	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lock	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lock	aux
4	lock	lock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pedals	det
6	pedals	pedal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lock	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 place	case
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lock	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	would	the chain	the pedals		place			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pedal=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Each pedal turn would be very hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 turn	det
2	pedal	pedal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turn	amod
3	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hard	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hard	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 hard	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 hard	advmod
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	each pedal turn					hard property	tree rules

Option 3

Pedalling would become very easy, like going downhill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pedalling	pedalling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 easy	advmod
5	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 become	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 going	punct
7	like	like	SCONJ	_	8 going	mark
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 become	advcl
9	downhill	downhill	ADV	_	8 going	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	Pedalling					easy property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	go	gerund	Pedalling not said here					downhill property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The bike would start to roll backwards down the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bike	det
2	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 start	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 start	aux
4	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 roll	mark
6	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 start	xcomp
7	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	6 roll	advmod
8	down	down	ADP	_	10 hill	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hill	det
10	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roll	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	the bike						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	roll	to-infinitive	the bike not said here			the hill		backwards property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down hill=Trajectory

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