Test 5 · ★ · Transport: from horses to planes

What would happen to a sailing ship on a day with no wind at all?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 99 «Transport: from horses to planes» 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	_	7 ship	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ship	det
6	sailing	sailing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ship	compound
7	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 day	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 wind	case
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 wind	det
13	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 wind	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					day	to a sailing ship; with no wind at all	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

It would sink at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing 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	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 sink	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It would hardly move

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 move	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 move	aux
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 move	advmod
4	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

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

Option 3

It would move backwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing 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	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	3 move	advmod

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

Option 4

It would go faster than usual

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 go	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 usual	case
6	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	It					than usual; fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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