Test 6 · ★★ · Toys and Lego

What would happen if a toy factory could use each steel mould only once?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: toy factory · What happens: happen, use · To what, where: steel mould

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Toys and Lego» 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 use	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 factory	det
6	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 factory	compound
7	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 use	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 use	aux
9	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happen	advcl
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 mould	det
11	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mould	compound
12	mould	mould	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 use	obj
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 once	advmod
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 use	advmod
15	?	?	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	use a condition, not said to happen	could	a toy factory	each steel mould				once property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mould=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

Toys would get cheaper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Toys					cheap property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Every toy would cost a fortune, because moulds are very expensive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 toy	det
2	toy	toy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cost	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cost	aux
4	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fortune	det
6	fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cost	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 expensive	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 expensive	mark
9	moulds	mould	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 expensive	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 expensive	cop
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 expensive	advmod
12	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cost	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	would	every toy	a fortune					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme fortune=Value
2	is	present	moulds					expensive property	tree rules

Option 3

Nothing would change at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing			all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Toys would get much stronger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	3 get	advmod
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Toys					strong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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