Test 5 · Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky

If the Earth stopped turning, what would happen to the stars in the night sky?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Earth · What happens: stop, turn, happen · To what, where: night sky

This is test 5 of lesson 70 «Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky» 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 Earth	det
3	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	turning	turn	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 turning	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 stars	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stars	det
12	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 happen	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 sky	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sky	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sky	compound
16	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 happen	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stopped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the Earth			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	turn	gerund	the Earth not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	happen	would		the night sky	to the stars	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in sky=Location

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 all disappear

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	4 disappear	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 disappear	aux
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 disappear	advmod
4	disappear	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	would	They					all property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

They would stop rising and setting

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	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 setting	cc
6	setting	set	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 rising	conj

#	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	rise	gerund	They not said here	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	set	gerund	They not said here	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

They would all fall down to the ground

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	4 fall	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 fall	advmod
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 fall	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	would	They					to the ground; all property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme

Option 4

They would spin twice as fast

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 spin	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 spin	aux
3	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 spin	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 spin	advmod

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

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