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title: What would happen if a digger dug up the road without checking the m… — Tunnels and what lies under the street · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a digger dug up the road without checking the marks? Test 3 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Tunnels and what lies under the street» of the technology 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 3 · ★★ · Tunnels and what lies under the street

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What would happen if a digger dug up the road without checking the marks?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** digger · **What happens:** happen, dig up, check · **To what, where:** road, marks

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This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Tunnels and what lies under the street» of the technology 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/technology/29-tunnels-and-under-the-street/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:29-tunnels-and-under-the-street:t3:1
# text = What would happen if a digger dug up the road without checking the marks?
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	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	digger	digger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	dug	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	checking	check	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dig up** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | a digger | the road |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent road=Theme |
| 3 | **check** | gerund | a digger *not said here* | the marks |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme |

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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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It could hit a gas pipe, water pipe or cable

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:29-tunnels-and-under-the-street:t3:o1:1
# text = It could hit a gas pipe, water pipe or cable
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	cable	cable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | could | It | a gas pipe |  |  |  | water pipe or cable *obl* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pipe=Co-Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, pipes are always buried much too deep for a digger to reach

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:29-tunnels-and-under-the-street:t3:o2:1
# text = Nothing, pipes are always buried much too deep for a digger to reach
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	pipes	pipe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	digger	digger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bury** | present · passive |  | Nothing pipes |  |  |  | for a digger; always, deep *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **reach** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The road would fill with sand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:29-tunnels-and-under-the-street:t3:o3:1
# text = The road would fill with sand
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | would | the road |  |  |  |  | with sand | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with sand=Instrument |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The marks would move to a new place

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:29-tunnels-and-under-the-street:t3:o4:1
# text = The marks would move to a new place
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | would | the marks |  |  | a new place |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to place=Trajectory |

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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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