Test 6 · ★★ · The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale…

What would happen to a blobfish in its deep home if nobody pulled it up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: nobody · What happens: happen, pull up · To what, where: deep home, home

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 176 «The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls» 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 blobfish	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 blobfish	det
6	blobfish	blobfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 home	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 home	nmod:poss
9	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 home	amod
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 pulled	mark
12	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 pulled	nsubj
13	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pulled	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 pulled	compound:prt
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				blobfish's deep home		to a blobfish	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in home=Location
2	pull up a condition, not said to happen	past	nobody	home					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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

It would float right up to the surface

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 float	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 float	aux
3	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	right	right	ADV	_	3 float	advmod
5	up	up	ADP	_	8 surface	case
6	to	to	ADP	_	5 up	fixed
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 surface	det
8	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 float	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	would	It			the surface		right property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up surface=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would look like a normal fish

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 look	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 look	aux
3	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 fish	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fish	det
6	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fish	amod
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	would	It					like a normal fish	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

It would melt into a puddle of jelly at once

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 melt	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 melt	aux
3	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 puddle	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 puddle	det
6	puddle	puddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 melt	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 jelly	case
8	jelly	jelly	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 puddle	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 melt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	would	It			a puddle of jelly			vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into puddle=Product

Option 4

It would turn bright pink and then explode

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 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pink	amod
5	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turn	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 explode	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 explode	advmod
8	explode	explode	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 turn	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It					pink property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	explode	infinitive					then		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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