Test 8 · How long since? Counting back

What would happen to Leo's phone if it kept losing about 10% an hour after 50% at 12:00?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: phone · What happens: happen, keep, lose · To what, where: 12:00

This is test 8 of lesson 108 «How long since? Counting back» of the world 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	to	to	ADP	_	7 phone	case
5	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 phone	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Leo	case
7	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 kept	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kept	nsubj
10	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 kept	xcomp
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 10	advmod
13	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 %	nummod
14	%	%	SYM	Number=Sing	11 losing	obj
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hour	det
16	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 losing	obl:unmarked
17	after	after	ADP	_	19 %	case
18	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 %	nummod
19	%	%	SYM	Number=Sing	11 losing	obl
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 12:00	case
21	12:00	12:00	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 losing	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				to Leo's phone	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	phone				tree rules
3	lose	gerund	phone not said here	12:00	hour		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent %=Eventuality

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 be flat at about 1:00

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 flat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 flat	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 flat	cop
4	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 1:00	case
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 1:00	advmod
7	1:00	1:00	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 flat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It			1:00		flat property	tree rules

Option 2

It would never go flat

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 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	would	It					flat property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It would be flat at about 5:00

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 flat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 flat	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 flat	cop
4	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 5:00	case
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 5:00	advmod
7	5:00	5:00	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 flat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It			5:00		flat property	tree rules

Option 4

It would be flat at about 10:00 at night

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 flat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 flat	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 flat	cop
4	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 10:00	case
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 10:00	advmod
7	10:00	10:00	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 flat	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 night	case
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 10:00	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It			10:00 at night		flat property	tree rules

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