Test 4 · Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C

What would happen if a guinea pig got only dry pellets and no vitamin C for weeks?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: guinea pig · What happens: happen, get · To what, where: dry pellets

This is test 4 of lesson 201 «Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C» 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	_	8 got	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pig	det
6	guinea	guinea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pig	compound
7	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 pellets	advmod
10	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pellets	amod
11	pellets	pellet	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 got	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 C	cc
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 C	det
14	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 C	compound
15	C	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pellets	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 weeks	case
17	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 got	obl
18	?	?	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	get a condition, not said to happen	past	a guinea pig	dry pellets and no vitamin C			week		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pellet=Stimulus

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 start to hibernate

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 start	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 start	aux
3	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hibernate	mark
5	hibernate	hibernate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 start	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	It						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	hibernate	to-infinitive							vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location

Option 2

Nothing at all, because it makes its own vitamin C inside its body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 makes	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 makes	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 makes	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 makes	nsubj
7	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 C	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 C	amod
10	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 C	compound
11	C	c	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 makes	obj
12	inside	inside	ADP	_	14 body	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 body	nmod:poss
14	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 makes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Nothing	its own vitamin C		C's body			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material c=Product

Option 3

It would grow faster

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 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It could get scurvy, with sore joints and bleeding gums

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 get	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	scurvy	scurvy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 joints	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 joints	case
7	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 joints	amod
8	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bleeding	cc
10	bleeding	bleed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 get	conj
11	gums	gum	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bleeding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	could	It	scurvy				with sore joints	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scurvy=Stimulus
2	bleed	gerund		gums					vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent gum=Source

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