Test 7 · ★ · Volcanoes and earthquakes up close

If the mantle stopped flowing, what would happen to the plates?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mantle · What happens: stop, flow, happen

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 62 «Volcanoes and earthquakes up close» 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 mantle	det
3	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stopped	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 happen	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 happen	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 happen	aux
9	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 flowing	ccomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 plates	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 plates	det
12	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 happen	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stopped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the mantle		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	flow	gerund	the mantle not said here		tree rules
3	happen	would		to the plates	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

They would sink into the hot core at once and melt away

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 sink	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sink	aux
3	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 core	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 core	det
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 core	amod
7	core	core	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sink	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 sink	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 melt	cc
11	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sink	conj
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 melt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	would	They			the hot core			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	melt away	infinitive	They not said here					away property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

They would float up 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 float	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 float	aux
3	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 float	compound:prt
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 space	case
6	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 float	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float up	would	They			space			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into space=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They would stop moving, so mountains would stop rising

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 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stop	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 stop	advmod
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stop	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 stop	aux
9	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stop	conj
10	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	stop	would	They	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	move	gerund	They not said here	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	stop	would	mountains	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	rise	gerund	mountains not said here	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They would move faster than before

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 move	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 move	aux
3	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 move	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 before	case
6	before	before	ADV	_	3 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	would	They					fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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