Test 8 · Rivers, lakes and the sea up close

What would happen to waves on a lake if there were no wind at all for a long time?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wind · What happens: happen, be · To what, where: lake

This is test 8 of lesson 64 «Rivers, lakes and the sea 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	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	_	5 waves	case
5	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 lake	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lake	det
8	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 were	mark
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 were	expl
11	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 wind	det
13	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 were	nsubj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 wind	nmod
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 time	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 time	det
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 time	amod
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 all	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				a lake		to waves	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on lake=Location
2	be a condition, not said to happen	past	no wind at all			there			vn exist-47.1 «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 waves would grow bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 waves	det
2	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	xcomp

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

Option 2

The water would turn salty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turn	xcomp

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The surface would become very calm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 surface	det
2	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 calm	advmod
6	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	the surface					calm property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

The lake would freeze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lake	det
2	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 freeze	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 freeze	aux
4	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

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

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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