Test 4 · ★★ · The internet and undersea cables

What would happen if a ship's anchor cut an undersea cable?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: anchor · What happens: happen, cut · To what, where: undersea cable

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 37 «The internet and undersea cables» 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	_	9 cut	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ship	det
6	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 anchor	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 ship	case
8	anchor	anchor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cut	nsubj
9	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cable	det
11	undersea	undersea	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cable	amod
12	cable	cable	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cut	obj
13	?	?	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	cut a condition, not said to happen	past	a ship's anchor	a undersea cable					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material cable=Product

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

Nothing could ever cross that ocean again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 cross	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cross	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 cross	advmod
4	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 ocean	det
6	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cross	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 cross	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	could	Nothing	that ocean			ever; again		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ocean=Patient

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

Data would be sent along other cables, maybe more slowly, until it is repaired

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Data	data	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	aux:pass
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	along	along	ADP	_	7 cables	case
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cables	amod
7	cables	cable	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sent	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 slowly	punct
9	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	11 slowly	advmod
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 slowly	advmod
11	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 sent	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 repaired	punct
13	until	until	SCONJ	_	16 repaired	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 repaired	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 repaired	aux:pass
16	repaired	repair	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sent	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	would · passive		Data				along other cables; slowly property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	repair	present · passive		Data					vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 3

The sea would fill with data

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	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 data	case
6	data	data	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fill	obl

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

Option 4

The whole internet would stop forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 internet	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 internet	amod
3	internet	internet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stop	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	aux
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	forever	forever	ADV	_	5 stop	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	the whole internet					forever property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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