Test 5 · ★★ · Pigs: mud, snouts and brains

What would happen if pale pigs had no mud or shade on a hot sunny day?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pale pigs · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: mud

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 210 «Pigs: mud, snouts and brains» 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	_	7 had	mark
5	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pigs	amod
6	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 mud	det
9	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 shade	cc
11	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mud	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	16 day	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 day	det
14	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 day	amod
15	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 day	amod
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obl
17	?	?	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	have a condition, not said to happen	past	pale pigs	no mud or shade			day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mud=Patient

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, pigs love strong sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 love	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 love	nsubj
4	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sun	amod
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 love	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	pigs	strong sun				Nothing vocative	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus

Option 2

They would turn black

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur 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	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	They					black property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They could overheat and get sunburnt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 overheat	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 overheat	aux
3	overheat	overheat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 get	cc
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 overheat	conj
6	sunburnt	sunburnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overheat	could	They						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	get	infinitive	They not said here					sunburnt property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They would sweat and stay cool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sweat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sweat	aux
3	sweat	sweat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 stay	cc
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sweat	conj
6	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sweat	would	They						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stay	infinitive	They not said here					cool property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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