Test 8 · ★ · Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes

If the oceans near the equator became much colder, what would most likely happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: oceans · What happens: become, happen

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 68 «Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes» 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	_	7 became	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 oceans	det
3	oceans	ocean	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 became	nsubj
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 equator	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 equator	det
6	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 oceans	nmod
7	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 colder	advmod
9	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 became	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 happen	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 happen	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 happen	aux
13	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 likely	advmod
14	likely	likely	ADV	_	15 happen	advmod
15	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 colder	advcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 became	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the oceans near the equator					cold property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	happen	would						likely property	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 · ← Mova's choice

Hurricanes would move to the poles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hurricanes	hurricane	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 move	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 move	aux
3	move	move	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 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	would	Hurricanes			the poles			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to pole=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Fewer and weaker hurricanes would form

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 hurricanes	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 weaker	cc
3	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Fewer	conj
4	hurricanes	hurricane	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 form	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 form	aux
6	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

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

Option 3

More and stronger hurricanes would form

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 hurricanes	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 stronger	cc
3	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 More	conj
4	hurricanes	hurricane	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 form	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 form	aux
6	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

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

Option 4

Tornadoes would turn into hurricanes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tornadoes	tornado	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 hurricanes	case
5	hurricanes	hurricane	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	obl

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

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