Test 6 · ★★ · Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds

What would happen if a labrador with a thick waterproof coat and a greyhound with a thin coat both swam in a cold lake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: labrador · What happens: happen, swim · To what, where: cold lake

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 192 «Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds» 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	_	20 swam	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 labrador	det
6	labrador	labrador	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 swam	nsubj
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 coat	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 coat	det
9	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 coat	amod
10	waterproof	waterproof	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 coat	amod
11	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 labrador	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 greyhound	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 greyhound	det
14	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 coat	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 coat	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 coat	det
17	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 coat	amod
18	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 greyhound	nmod
19	both	both	ADV	_	20 swam	advmod
20	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 lake	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 lake	det
23	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lake	amod
24	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 swam	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	swim a condition, not said to happen	past	a labrador with a thick waterproof coat and a greyhound with a thin coat			a cold lake		both property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lake=Trajectory

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

Both would feel the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 feel	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	aux
3	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 same	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feel	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	would	Both	the same					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Theme

Option 2

The labrador would sink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 labrador	det
2	labrador	labrador	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sink	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sink	aux
4	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	would	the labrador						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The labrador would stay much warmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 labrador	det
2	labrador	labrador	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	aux
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 warmer	advmod
6	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	the labrador					warm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The greyhound would stay warmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 greyhound	det
2	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	aux
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	the greyhound					warm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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