Test 6 · ★★★ · Ice Age: real woolly mammoths

What would happen to a mammoth with huge African-elephant ears in an Ice Age winter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen

This is test 6 · ★★★ of lesson 130 «Ice Age: real woolly mammoths» of the biology 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	_	6 mammoth	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mammoth	det
6	mammoth	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	12 ears	case
8	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ears	amod
9	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 elephant	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 African	punct
11	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ears	compound
12	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 winter	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 winter	det
15	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Age	compound
16	Age	Age	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 winter	compound
17	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					winter	to a mammoth; with huge elephant ears	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 fly with its ears

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 fly	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 ears	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ears	nmod:poss
6	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	would	It					with its ears	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It would hear wolves better and stay warmer

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 hear	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hear	obj
5	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 hear	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stay	cc
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hear	conj
8	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	would	It	wolves				well property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wolf=Stimulus
2	stay	infinitive						warm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nothing at all would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It would lose lots of heat and its ears might freeze

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 lose	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lose	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 heat	case
6	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lots	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 freeze	cc
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 ears	nmod:poss
9	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 freeze	nsubj
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 freeze	aux
11	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lose	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	It	lots of heat					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Eventuality
2	freeze	might	heat's ears						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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