Test 5 · ★ · Dolphins, porpoises and seals

What would happen if a dolphin's whole brain fell asleep at once in deep water?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whole brain · What happens: happen, fall · To what, where: deep water

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 27 «Dolphins, porpoises and seals» 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	_	10 fell	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dolphin	det
6	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brain	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 dolphin	case
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 brain	amod
9	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fell	nsubj
10	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fell	xcomp
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 once	case
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 fell	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 water	case
15	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 water	amod
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fell	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	fall a condition, not said to happen	past	a dolphin's whole brain			deep water		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=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 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, dolphins can breathe the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 dolphins	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	dolphins	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 breathe	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 breathe	aux
5	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breathe	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	can	Nothing dolphins	the water					vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 2

It would breathe through its skin instead

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	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 breathe	aux
3	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 skin	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 skin	nmod:poss
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breathe	obl
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 breathe	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	would	It			its skin		instead property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It might forget to come up and breathe

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 forget	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 forget	aux
3	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 come	mark
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forget	xcomp
6	up	up	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 breathe	cc
8	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forget	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	forget	might	It	tree rules
2	not come up	to-infinitive		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	breathe	infinitive		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It would sink to the seabed and rest safely

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 sink	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sink	aux
3	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 seabed	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 seabed	det
6	seabed	seabed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sink	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rest	cc
8	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sink	conj
9	safely	safely	ADV	_	8 rest	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	would	It					to the seabed	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	rest	infinitive						safely property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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