Test 7 · ★ · Gravity

What would happen to the oceans if the Earth had no gravity?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Earth · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: gravity

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 6 «Gravity» 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	_	6 oceans	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 oceans	det
6	oceans	ocean	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 had	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Earth	det
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 gravity	det
12	gravity	gravity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to the oceans	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	the Earth	no gravity					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gravity=Patient

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

They would freeze at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 freeze	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 freeze	aux
3	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 freeze	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	would	They						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Nothing would happen to them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would	Nothing		them = they				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They would drift off into space

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drift	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 drift	aux
3	drift	drift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 drift	compound:prt
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 space	case
6	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drift	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drift off	would	They			space			vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

They would flow to the poles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 flow	aux
3	flow	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 poles	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 poles	det
6	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flow	would	They					to the poles	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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