Test 2 · ★ · Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn

What would happen if a town sent fewer firefighters to big fires?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: town · What happens: happen, send · To what, where: town, fewer firefighters

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 180 «Correlation is not cause: ice cream and sunburn» 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 town	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 town	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 town	acl
8	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 firefighters	amod
9	firefighters	firefighter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sent	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 fires	case
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fires	amod
12	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sent	obl:agent
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would		a town					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	send	participle	a town not said here	fewer firefighters					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firefighter=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

The fires would probably do more damage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fires	det
2	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
4	probably	probably	ADV	_	5 do	advmod
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 damage	amod
7	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	would	the fires	more damage				probably property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=Eventuality

Option 2

There would be much less damage, with fewer hoses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 be	expl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 less	advmod
5	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 damage	amod
6	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 be	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hoses	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 hoses	case
9	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 hoses	amod
10	hoses	hose	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 damage	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	would	less damage and fewer hoses			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nothing would change at all, the damage stays the same

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
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stays	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 damage	det
8	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stays	nsubj
9	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 change	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 same	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stays	xcomp

#	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
2	stay	present	the damage					same property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The fires would shrink straight away on their own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fires	det
2	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shrink	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 shrink	aux
4	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 away	advmod
6	away	away	ADV	_	4 shrink	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 own	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 own	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shrink	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrink	would	the fires			fires's own		away property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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