Test 6 · ★ · Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbego…

What would happen if a goblin shark could not shoot its jaws forward?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: goblin shark · What happens: happen, not shoot · To what, where: jaws

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 311 «Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin 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	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 shoot	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shark	det
6	goblin	goblin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shark	compound
7	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shoot	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 shoot	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 shoot	advmod
10	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happen	advcl
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 jaws	nmod:poss
12	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shoot	obj
13	forward	forward	ADV	_	10 shoot	advmod
14	?	?	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	not shoot a condition, not said to happen	could	a goblin shark	shark's jaws				forward property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jaw=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

It would have to live in rivers

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 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 live	mark
5	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 rivers	case
7	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	It						tree rules
2	live	to-infinitive				rivers			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It would miss more fast prey in the dark

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 miss	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 miss	aux
3	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 prey	amod
6	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 miss	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 dark	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dark	det
9	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 miss	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	would	It	fast prey		the dark			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prey=Stimulus

Option 3

It would have to start eating seaweed off the rocks

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 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 start	mark
5	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 start	xcomp
7	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eating	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	10 rocks	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rocks	det
10	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	would	It			tree rules
2	start	to-infinitive				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	eat	gerund		seaweed	off the rocks	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seaweed=Patient

Option 4

It would stop being pink

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 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 pink	cop
5	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	It						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	gerund						pink property	tree rules

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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