Test 4 · ★ · Roads and road signs

What would happen if a cold country stopped gritting its roads?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cold country · What happens: happen, stop, grit · To what, where: roads

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 31 «Roads and road signs» 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 stopped	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 country	det
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 country	amod
7	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stopped	nsubj
8	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	gritting	grit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 stopped	xcomp
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 roads	nmod:poss
11	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gritting	obj
12	?	?	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	stop a condition, not said to happen	past	a cold country		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	grit	gerund	a cold country not said here	country's roads	tree rules

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

More ice would form on roads in frosts, and more cars would skid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 ice	amod
2	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 form	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 form	aux
4	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 roads	case
6	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 form	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 frosts	case
8	frosts	frost	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 form	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 skid	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 skid	cc
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 cars	amod
12	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 skid	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 skid	aux
14	skid	skid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 form	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form	would	More ice			roads		in frosts	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on road=Location
2	skid	would	more cars						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The roads would melt in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	would	the roads				winter		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Roads would stay dry because ice cannot form on asphalt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	xcomp
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 form	mark
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 form	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 form	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 form	advmod
9	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stay	advcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 asphalt	case
11	asphalt	asphalt	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 form	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	Roads					dry property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not form	can	ice			asphalt			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on asphalt=Location

Option 4

Nothing, salt does not change ice at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 salt	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 change	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 change	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 change	advmod
6	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 change	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not change	present · do-support	Nothing salt	ice		all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Patient

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