Test 3 · ★ · Worms, snails and slugs

What would happen to an earthworm left on a hot, dry pavement all afternoon?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, leave · To what, where: earthworm, hot dry pavement

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 217 «Worms, snails and slugs» 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 earthworm	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 earthworm	det
6	earthworm	earthworm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 earthworm	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	13 pavement	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pavement	det
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pavement	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hot	punct
12	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pavement	amod
13	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obl
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 afternoon	det
15	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl:unmarked
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					afternoon	to a earthworm	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	participle		a earthworm not said here		a hot dry pavement			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on pavement=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

It would slowly turn into a slug

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 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 slug	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 slug	det
7	slug	slug	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl

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

Option 2

Nothing, worms love dry heat and lie in the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 worms	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 love	nsubj
4	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 heat	amod
6	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 love	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lie	cc
8	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 love	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 sun	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lie	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	Nothing worms	dry heat					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heat=Stimulus
2	lie	present	Nothing worms not said here			the sun			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It would dry out and could not breathe through its skin

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 dry	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 dry	aux
3	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 dry	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 breathe	cc
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 breathe	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 breathe	advmod
8	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dry	conj
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 skin	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 skin	nmod:poss
11	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 breathe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry out	would	It						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	not breathe	could				its skin			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It would grow a hard shell to save itself from the heat

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shell	det
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shell	amod
6	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 save	mark
8	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grow	advcl
9	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 save	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 heat	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 heat	det
12	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 save	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It	a hard shell					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shell=Theme
2	save	to-infinitive		shell		the heat			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent itself=Theme from heat=Source

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