Test 6 · Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs a…

What would happen if a beach where turtles nest got much hotter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: turtles · What happens: happen, get · To what, where: beach

This is test 6 of lesson 174 «Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles» 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	_	6 beach	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 beach	det
6	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 got	advmod
8	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 got	nsubj
9	nest	nest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 got	aux
10	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 beach	acl:relcl
11	much	much	ADV	_	12 hotter	advmod
12	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 got	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would		a beach					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	present	turtles					hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 eggs would hatch into crabs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eggs	det
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hatch	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hatch	aux
4	hatch	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 crabs	case
6	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hatch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch	would	the eggs					into crabs	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient into crab=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

More of the babies hatching there would be female

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 female	advmod
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 babies	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 babies	det
4	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 More	obl
5	hatching	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 babies	acl
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 hatching	advmod
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 female	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 female	cop
9	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch	gerund	the babies not said here			there			vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient
2	is	would						female property	tree rules

Option 3

All the babies hatching there would be male, every single one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 babies	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 babies	det
3	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 male	nsubj
4	hatching	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 babies	acl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 hatching	advmod
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 male	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 male	cop
8	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 one	det
11	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 male	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch	gerund	all babies not said here			there			vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient
2	is	would	all babies					male property	tree rules

Option 4

Nothing would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	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

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