Test 5 · ★★ · Phones and computer chips

What would happen if a speck of dust fell on a chip while it was being printed?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: speck · What happens: happen, fall, print · To what, where: chip, speck

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Phones and computer chips» 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 fell	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 speck	det
6	speck	speck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 dust	case
8	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 speck	nmod
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 chip	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 chip	det
12	chip	chip	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	obl
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 printed	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 printed	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 printed	aux:pass
16	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 printed	aux:pass
17	printed	print	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 fell	advcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall a condition, not said to happen	past	a speck of dust		a chip	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on chip=Location
3	print	past · passive		speck		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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

The dust would turn into a new switch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dust	det
2	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 switch	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 switch	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 switch	amod
8	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the dust			a new switch			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into switch=Trajectory

Option 2

Nothing, chips need a little dust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 chips	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dust	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dust	amod
7	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Nothing chips	a little dust					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dust=Theme

Option 3

The chip would become faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chip	det
2	chip	chip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 become	advmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That chip could be ruined

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 chip	det
2	chip	chip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ruined	nsubj:pass
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 ruined	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 ruined	aux:pass
5	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ruin	could · passive		that chip					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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