Test 11 · ★ · Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and p…

What would happen if you took an ordinary pendulum clock onto a rolling ship?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, take, roll · To what, where: ordinary pendulum clock, rolling ship

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 123 «Pendulums, Greenwich and railway time, atomic clocks and phones» 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	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 took	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 took	nsubj
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 clock	det
8	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 clock	amod
9	pendulum	pendulum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 clock	compound
10	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
11	onto	onto	ADP	_	14 ship	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 ship	det
13	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 ship	amod
14	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl
15	?	?	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	take a condition, not said to happen	past	you	a ordinary pendulum clock	a rolling ship	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent clock=Theme onto ship=Destination
3	roll	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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 right answer

The rocking would upset the swing and it would keep bad time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rocking	det
2	rocking	rocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 upset	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 upset	aux
4	upset	upset	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 swing	det
6	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 upset	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 keep	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 keep	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 keep	aux
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 upset	conj
11	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	upset	would	the rocking	the swing					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus swing=Experiencer
2	keep	would	rocking				time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It would turn into a proper sea clock all by itself after a while

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 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	8 clock	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 clock	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 clock	amod
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 clock	compound
8	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
9	all	all	ADV	_	3 turn	advmod
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 itself	case
11	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 turn	obl
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 while	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 while	det
14	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It			a proper sea clock	while	by clock; all property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into clock=Trajectory

Option 3

It would keep even better time, thanks to the rocking of the waves

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 keep	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 better	advmod
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thanks	punct
8	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 rocking	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rocking	det
11	rocking	rocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thanks	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 waves	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 waves	det
14	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 rocking	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	It	thanks to the rocking of the waves			time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It would work exactly as it does on land, with no change at all

The tree, 14 words

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 work	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 work	aux
3	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	7 does	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 does	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 does	nsubj
7	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 work	ccomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 land	case
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 does	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 change	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 change	case
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 change	det
13	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 work	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 change	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	would	It					with no change at all	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	do	present	it			land		exactly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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