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title: What would happen to a blacksmith's iron sword if he added a little… — Metals, mining and what they cost · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to a blacksmith's iron sword if he added a little carbon to make steel? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 60 «Metals, mining and what they cost» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right
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# Test 7 · ★★ · Metals, mining and what they cost

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What would happen to a blacksmith's iron sword if he added a little carbon to make steel?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** happen, add, make · **To what, where:** little carbon, steel

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This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 60 «Metals, mining and what they cost» of the geography 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:t7:1
# text = What would happen to a blacksmith's iron sword if he added a little carbon to make steel?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	carbon	carbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
18	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | to a blacksmith's iron sword | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | past | he | a little carbon |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carbon=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | he *not said here* | steel |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset steel=Product |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It would turn into gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:t7:o1:1
# text = It would turn into gold
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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It would become stronger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:t7:o2:1
# text = It would become stronger
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would melt at room temperature

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:t7:o3:1
# text = It would melt at room temperature
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	melt	melt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **melt** | would | It |  |  | room temperature |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It would rust away at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:60-metals-mining-and-what-they-cost:t7:o4:1
# text = It would rust away at once
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	rust	rust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rust away** | would | It |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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**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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