Test 8 · ★★ · Sharks

If many sharks were killed in one sea, what might happen to the other fish?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: kill, happen · To what, where: many sharks, one sea

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 28 «Sharks» 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 killed	mark
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sharks	amod
3	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 killed	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 killed	aux:pass
5	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 happen	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 sea	nummod
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 killed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 killed	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 happen	nsubj
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 happen	aux
12	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 fish	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fish	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fish	amod
16	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 happen	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		many sharks		one sea			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	happen	might						to the other fish	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

The fish would turn into sharks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 sharks	case
6	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the fish			sharks			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into shark=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Sick fish would spread disease and the balance would be upset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fish	amod
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spread	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 spread	aux
4	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spread	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 upset	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 balance	det
8	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 upset	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 upset	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 upset	cop
11	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spread	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	would	Sick fish	disease					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location disease=Theme
2	is	would	the balance					upset property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

All the other fish would get much healthier at once and live far longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 fish	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fish	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fish	amod
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 healthier	advmod
8	healthier	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 get	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 get	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 live	cc
12	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 get	conj
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 longer	advmod
14	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	all other fish					healthy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	live	present	all other fish not said here					long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nothing, sharks don't eat fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 sharks	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 eat	advmod
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	present · do-support	Nothing sharks	fish					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient

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