Test 4 · ★★ · Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothin…

What would happen if a bearded dragon were kept in a cold tank with no warm rock?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, keep · To what, where: bearded dragon, cold tank

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 146 «Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire» 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	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 kept	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dragon	det
6	bearded	bearded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dragon	amod
7	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 kept	aux:pass
9	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 tank	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tank	det
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tank	amod
13	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 rock	case
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 rock	det
16	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 rock	amod
17	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tank	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	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	keep a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		a bearded dragon		a cold tank with no warm rock			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in tank=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 · ← Mova's choice

It would move faster to keep warm

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	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 move	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 keep	mark
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 move	advcl
7	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	would	It					fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	to-infinitive						warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It would make its own heat and be fine

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 make	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 heat	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 heat	amod
6	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fine	cc
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 fine	cop
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 make	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	would	It	its own heat		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material heat=Product
2	is	infinitive			fine property	tree rules
3	heat		its = it			nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It would be slow and sluggish, because reptiles warm up from outside

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 slow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 slow	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 slow	cop
4	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sluggish	cc
6	sluggish	sluggish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 slow	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 warm	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 warm	mark
9	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 warm	nsubj
10	warm	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 slow	parataxis
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 warm	compound:prt
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 outside	case
13	outside	outside	ADV	_	10 warm	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	would	It	slow property	tree rules
2	be				tree rules
3	warm up	present	reptiles		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It would grow thick fur to stay warm, like a bear in the snow

The tree, 14 words

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 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fur	amod
5	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stay	mark
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fur	acl
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stay	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bear	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 bear	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bear	det
12	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 snow	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 snow	det
15	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It	thick fur		the snow		like a bear	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fur=Theme
2	stay	to-infinitive		thick fur not said here				warm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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