Test 8 · ★★★ · Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead

What would happen if a great white stopped swimming for a long time?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: great white · What happens: happen, stop, swim

This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 310 «Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead» 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 stopped	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 white	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 white	amod
7	white	white	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stopped	nsubj
8	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 stopped	xcomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 time	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 time	det
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swimming	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop a condition, not said to happen	past	a great white		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	swim	gerund	a great white not said here	time	vn run-51.3.2-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Too little water would flow over its gills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 little	advmod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flow	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 flow	aux
5	flow	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 gills	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 gills	nmod:poss
8	gills	gill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flow	would	little water			water's gills			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over gill=Location

Option 2

It would grow legs

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 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It	legs					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leg=Theme

Option 3

It would warm up and float

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 warm	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 warm	aux
3	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 warm	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 float	cc
6	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 warm	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm up	would	It						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	float	present							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It would breathe much better and feel rested

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	much	much	ADV	_	5 better	advmod
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 breathe	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 feel	cc
7	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 breathe	conj
8	rested	rest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	breathe	would	It	good property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feel	infinitive			vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	rest	participle			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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