Test 6 · ★ · Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworms and a se…

What would happen to eyes in a fish family that lives in a dark cave for many, many generations?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fish family · What happens: happen, live · To what, where: fish family, dark cave

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 179 «Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworms and a sealed cave» 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	_	5 eyes	case
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 family	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 family	det
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 family	compound
9	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 lives	nsubj
11	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 family	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 cave	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cave	det
14	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cave	amod
15	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lives	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	20 generations	case
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 generations	amod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 many	punct
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 generations	amod
20	generations	generation	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cave	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				a fish family		to eyes	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in family=Location
2	live	present	a fish family			a dark cave for many many generations			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=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

Nothing ever changes in any animal, not even in a million years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 changes	nsubj
2	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 changes	advmod
3	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 animal	case
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 animal	det
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changes	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 years	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 years	advmod
9	even	even	ADV	_	13 years	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 years	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 million	det
12	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 changes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	Nothing				ever; year	in any animal	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The fish would grow bigger eyes to see better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 eyes	amod
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 grow	advcl
9	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	the fish	bigger eyes					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	the fish not said here					well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

The fish would grow wings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	the fish	wings					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Eyes could shrink and disappear, since they are useless there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shrink	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 shrink	aux
3	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 disappear	cc
5	disappear	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 shrink	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 useless	punct
7	since	since	SCONJ	_	10 useless	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 useless	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 useless	cop
10	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shrink	conj
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 useless	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	shrink	could	Eyes			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	disappear	infinitive	Eyes not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	Eyes = eye	there	useless property	tree rules

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