Test 5 · Bottles, cans and recycling

What would happen if a cola can had a thin flat bottom instead of a dome?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cola · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: thin flat bottom

This is test 5 of lesson 4 «Bottles, cans and recycling» 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 had	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cola	det
6	cola	cola	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 had	aux
8	had	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happen	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bottom	det
10	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bottom	amod
11	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bottom	amod
12	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
13	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	16 dome	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	13 instead	fixed
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 dome	det
16	dome	dome	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obl
17	?	?	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	have a condition, not said to happen	can	a cola	a thin flat bottom				instead a dome	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottom=Patient

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

It would stay fizzy for ever, even after opening

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 stay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	fizzy	fizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 ever	case
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 stay	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 opening	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	10 opening	advmod
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	10 opening	mark
10	opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 stay	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	It					fizzy property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	open	gerund							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It could bulge from the gas pressure inside

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 bulge	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bulge	aux
3	bulge	bulge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 pressure	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pressure	det
6	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pressure	compound
7	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bulge	obl
8	inside	inside	ADV	_	3 bulge	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bulge	could	It			the gas pressure		inside property	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The cola inside it would taste a lot sweeter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cola	det
2	cola	cola	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taste	nsubj
3	inside	inside	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cola	nmod
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 taste	aux
6	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lot	det
8	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taste	obj
9	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 taste	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	would	the cola inside it	a lot				sweet property	vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme lot=Attribute

Option 4

It would hold twice as much cola as a normal can

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 hold	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hold	aux
3	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 much	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cola	amod
7	cola	cola	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hold	obj
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 normal	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 normal	det
10	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hold	parataxis
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 normal	aux

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	would	It	much cola					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cola=Theme

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