Test 6 · Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, gr…

What would happen to a grey whale baby born in the icy Arctic instead of a warm lagoon?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, bear · To what, where: grey whale baby, icy Arctic

This is test 6 of lesson 312 «Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke» 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	_	8 baby	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 baby	det
6	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 baby	amod
7	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 baby	compound
8	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
9	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 baby	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 Arctic	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Arctic	det
12	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Arctic	amod
13	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 born	obl
14	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	18 lagoon	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 instead	fixed
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 lagoon	det
17	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lagoon	amod
18	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 born	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a grey whale baby	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bear	participle		a grey whale baby not said here		the icy Arctic		instead a warm lagoon	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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 turn into a polar bear

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 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 bear	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bear	det
6	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bear	amod
7	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

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

Option 2

It would grow baleen faster

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	baleen	baleen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obj
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	advmod

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

Option 3

Nothing at all, babies like cold best and grow faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 grow	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 babies	punct
5	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 grow	nsubj
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 cold	case
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 babies	nmod
8	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 grow	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grow	cc
10	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Nothing					fast, well property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It would struggle more, being thin and losing heat in the cold water

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 struggle	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 struggle	aux
3	struggle	struggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 struggle	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thin	punct
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 thin	cop
7	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 struggle	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 losing	cc
9	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 thin	conj
10	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 losing	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 water	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
13	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 water	amod
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 losing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	struggle	would	It	more			tree rules
2	is	gerund				thin property	tree rules
3	lose	gerund		heat	the cold water		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Eventuality

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