Test 8 · ★ · Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bee…

What would happen if a fish lost its lateral line in a fast river?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fish · What happens: happen, lose · To what, where: lateral line, fast river

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 232 «Hidden senses: magnetic birds and turtles, ultraviolet bees, heat-seeing snakes, whiskers and lateral lines» 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 lost	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	nsubj
7	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 line	nmod:poss
9	lateral	lateral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 line	amod
10	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 river	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 river	det
13	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 river	amod
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 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 fish	fish's lateral line		a fast river			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would find it harder to hold its place and feel danger in the water

The tree, 15 words

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 find	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 harder	nsubj
5	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 find	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hold	mark
7	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 harder	xcomp
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 place	nmod:poss
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 feel	cc
11	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hold	conj
12	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feel	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 water	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 water	det
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	would	It			hard property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	hold	to-infinitive		its place			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
3	feel	infinitive		danger	the water		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent danger=Theme in water=Location

Option 2

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	would	It					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nothing, it is only a stripe of colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 stripe	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stripe	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 stripe	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 stripe	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stripe	det
7	stripe	stripe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 colour	case
9	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stripe	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nothing	a stripe				of colour	tree rules

Option 4

It could breathe air

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 breathe	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 breathe	aux
3	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breathe	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	could	It	air					vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme

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