Test 3 · ★ · The water cycle

If the Sun stopped warming the Earth, what would happen to the water cycle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Sun · What happens: stop, warm, happen · To what, where: Earth

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 14 «The water cycle» 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 stopped	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sun	det
3	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 happen	advcl
5	warming	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stopped	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Earth	det
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 warming	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stopped	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 happen	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 happen	aux
11	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 cycle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cycle	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cycle	compound
15	cycle	cycle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 happen	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop a condition, not said to happen	past	the Sun			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	warm	gerund	the Sun not said here	the Earth		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent earth=Patient
3	happen	would			to the water cycle	vn occur-48.3-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would stop, because water would hardly evaporate

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 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 evaporate	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 evaporate	mark
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 evaporate	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 evaporate	aux
8	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	9 evaporate	advmod
9	evaporate	evaporate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stop	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	It						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	evaporate	would	water					hardly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Clouds would form even faster than before, and rain more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 form	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 form	aux
3	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 faster	advmod
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 form	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 before	case
7	before	before	ADV	_	5 faster	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rain	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rain	cc
10	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 form	obl
11	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 form	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form	would	Clouds	rain				fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Rain would fall more often

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fall	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 often	advmod
5	often	often	ADV	_	3 fall	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	Rain					often property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nothing, because the Moon drives it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 drives	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 drives	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Moon	det
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 drives	nsubj
6	drives	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	parataxis
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 drives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	present	the Moon	it					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location

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