Test 4 · ★ · Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill…

What would happen if a hungry shark lost the jelly pores on its snout?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: hungry shark · What happens: happen, lose · To what, where: jelly pores, snout

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 231 «Electric senses: electric eels, sharks, the platypus bill and charged bees» 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 lost	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shark	det
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shark	amod
7	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lost	nsubj
8	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pores	det
10	jelly	jelly	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pores	compound
11	pores	pore	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lost	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 snout	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 snout	nmod:poss
14	snout	snout	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lost	obl
15	?	?	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	lose a condition, not said to happen	past	a hungry shark	the jelly pores		shark's snout			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pore=Eventuality

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 could not swim straight any more, only in circles

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 swim	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 swim	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 swim	advmod
4	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	4 swim	advmod
6	any	any	ADV	_	7 more	advmod
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 swim	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 circles	punct
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 circles	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 circles	case
11	circles	circle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 swim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not swim	could	It			circles		straight property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in circle=Trajectory

Option 2

It would stop needing food for the rest of its life

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 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	needing	need	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needing	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 rest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rest	det
8	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needing	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 life	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 life	nmod:poss
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	It						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	need	gerund		food				for the rest of rest's life	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would struggle to find buried fish

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 struggle	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 struggle	aux
3	struggle	struggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 find	mark
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 struggle	xcomp
6	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 fish	amod
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	struggle	would	It		tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive		buried fish	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Topic
3	bury	participle			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It would go completely blind in both eyes

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 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	completely	completely	ADV	_	5 blind	advmod
5	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 go	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 eyes	case
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 eyes	det
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 blind	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	It					blind property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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