Test 4 · ★★ · Animal minds: dolphins' names, orca grandmothers and whale…

What would happen to an orca family if its old grandmother died before a bad salmon year?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: old grandmother · What happens: happen, die

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 235 «Animal minds: dolphins' names, orca grandmothers and whale songs» 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	_	7 family	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 family	det
6	orca	orca	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 family	compound
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 died	mark
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 grandmother	nmod:poss
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grandmother	amod
11	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 died	nsubj
12	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
13	before	before	ADP	_	17 year	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 year	det
15	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 year	amod
16	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 year	compound
17	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 died	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a orca family	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	die a condition, not said to happen	past	family's old grandmother				year		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

They would swim to a lake

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 swim	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 swim	aux
3	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 lake	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lake	det
6	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	would	They			a lake			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to lake=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They might struggle to find food

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 struggle	nsubj
2	might	might	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	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	struggle	might	They						tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive	They not said here	food					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic

Option 3

They would all become vegetarian

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	4 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 become	advmod
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	vegetarian	vegetarian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	They					all, vegetarian property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Nothing, every orca knows everything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 knows	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 orca	det
4	orca	orca	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knows	nsubj
5	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	acl:relcl
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	every orca	everything					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus

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