Test 3 · ★★ · Tunnels and what lies under the street

What would happen if a digger dug up the road without checking the marks?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: digger · What happens: happen, dig up, check · To what, where: road, marks

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Tunnels and what lies under the street» 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	_	7 dug	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 digger	det
6	digger	digger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dug	nsubj
7	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 dug	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 road	det
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dug	obj
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	12 checking	mark
12	checking	check	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 dug	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 marks	det
14	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 checking	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dig up a condition, not said to happen	participle	a digger	the road	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent road=Theme
3	check	gerund	a digger not said here	the marks	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It could hit a gas pipe, water pipe or cable

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 hit	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hit	aux
3	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pipe	det
5	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pipe	compound
6	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pipe	punct
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pipe	compound
9	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 cable	cc
11	cable	cable	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pipe	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	could	It	a gas pipe				water pipe or cable obl	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pipe=Co-Theme

Option 2

Nothing, pipes are always buried much too deep for a digger to reach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 pipes	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 buried	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 buried	aux:pass
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 buried	advmod
6	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	much	much	ADV	_	9 deep	advmod
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 deep	advmod
9	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 buried	xcomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 digger	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 digger	det
12	digger	digger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 buried	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 reach	mark
14	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 buried	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	present · passive		Nothing pipes				for a digger; always, deep property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	reach	to-infinitive							vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The road would fill with sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 road	det
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fill	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fill	aux
4	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 sand	case
6	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	would	the road					with sand	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with sand=Instrument

Option 4

The marks would move to a new place

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 marks	det
2	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 move	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 move	aux
4	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 place	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 place	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 place	amod
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	would	the marks			a new place			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to place=Trajectory

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