Test 5 · ★★ · The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark a…

What would happen to polar bears if the sea ice melted much earlier each year?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sea ice · What happens: happen, melt

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 169 «The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark and the unicorn's tooth» 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 bears	case
5	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bears	amod
6	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 melted	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ice	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ice	compound
10	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 melted	nsubj
11	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
12	much	much	ADV	_	13 earlier	advmod
13	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 year	advmod
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 year	det
15	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 melted	obl:unmarked
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to polar bears	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	melt a condition, not said to happen	participle	the sea ice				year		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

They would have less time to hunt seals from the ice and swim longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hunt	mark
7	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 time	acl
8	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hunt	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 ice	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ice	det
11	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seals	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 swim	cc
13	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
14	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 swim	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	They			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hunt	to-infinitive	They not said here	seals	the ice			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Theme
3	swim	present	They not said here				long property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They would move to Antarctica and hunt penguins instead of seals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur 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	to	to	ADP	_	5 Antarctica	case
5	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 move	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hunt	cc
7	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 move	conj
8	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hunt	obj
9	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	11 seals	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 instead	fixed
11	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hunt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	would	They		Antarctica				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to antarctica=Result
2	hunt	present	They not said here	penguins				instead seals	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penguin=Theme

Option 3

They would get fatter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	fatter	fat	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	They					fat property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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