Test 9 · ★ · Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant…

What would happen to a salmon put in the wrong river?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, put · To what, where: salmon, wrong river

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 184 «Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal» 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 salmon	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 salmon	det
6	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 salmon	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
10	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 river	amod
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a salmon	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put	participle		a salmon not said here		the wrong river			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in river=Destination

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 · ✓ the right answer

It might be lost, because salmon find their home river by smell

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 lost	nsubj:pass
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 lost	aux:pass
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 find	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 find	mark
7	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 find	nsubj
8	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	parataxis
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 river	nmod:poss
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 river	compound
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	obj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 smell	case
13	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	might · passive		It					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	find	present	salmon	salmon's home river				by smell	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Topic

Option 2

It would read a map

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 read	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 read	aux
3	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 map	det
5	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 read	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	would	It	a map					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent map=Topic

Option 3

It would just stay out at sea and never lay any eggs anywhere at all

The tree, 15 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	4 stay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 stay	advmod
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 stay	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 sea	case
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lay	cc
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 lay	advmod
10	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stay	conj
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 eggs	det
12	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lay	obj
13	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 lay	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 lay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay out	would	It			sea			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sea=Location
2	not lay	infinitive		any eggs		all		anywhere property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme at all=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It would turn into a trout

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	into	into	ADP	_	6 trout	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trout	det
6	trout	trout	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It			a trout			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into trout=Trajectory

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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