Test 4 · ★★ · Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands

If the ice sheet of Greenland, which lies on land, melted, what would happen?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Greenland · What happens: lie, melt, happen · To what, where: land

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 65 «Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands» 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 sheet	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sheet	det
3	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sheet	compound
4	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 happen	parataxis
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Greenland	case
6	Greenland	Greenland	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sheet	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lies	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 lies	nsubj
9	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Greenland	acl:relcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 land	case
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lies	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 melted	punct
13	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sheet	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 happen	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 happen	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 happen	aux
17	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	lie	present	Greenland	land	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on land=Location
2	melt	participle			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	happen	would			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

The sea would turn into fresh water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the sea			fresh water			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into water=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The sea would rise and flood low coasts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rise	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 rise	aux
4	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 flood	cc
6	flood	flood	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rise	conj
7	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 coasts	amod
8	coasts	coast	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flood	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	would	the sea						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	flood	infinitive	the sea not said here	low coasts					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent coast=Patient

Option 3

Nothing, because the ice already floats

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	_	7 floats	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 floats	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ice	det
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 floats	nsubj
6	already	already	ADV	_	7 floats	advmod
7	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	present	the ice						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The sea would sink lower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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