Test 6 · Pencils, paper and school things

What would happen if cardboard had no wavy middle layer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cardboard · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: wavy middle layer

This is test 6 of lesson 6 «Pencils, paper and school things» 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 had	mark
5	cardboard	cardboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 layer	det
8	wavy	wavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 layer	amod
9	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 layer	amod
10	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
11	?	?	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	past	cardboard	no wavy middle layer					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent layer=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 become waterproof

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 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	waterproof	waterproof	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	It					waterproof property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

It would be twice as strong

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	6 strong	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 strong	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 strong	cop
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 strong	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 strong	advmod
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					strong, twice property	tree rules

Option 3

It would become see-through

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 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 become	xcomp
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 through	punct
6	through	thorough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 see	compound

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	It						tree rules
2	see	infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It would be thin and bend easily under heavy things

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	4 thin	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 thin	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 thin	cop
4	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bend	cc
6	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thin	conj
7	easily	easily	ADV	_	6 bend	advmod
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 things	case
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 things	amod
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bend	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					thin property	tree rules
2	bend	infinitive				heavy things		easily property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under thing=Location

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