Test 6 · ★ · Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale, orca, bel…

What would happen if a sleeping sperm whale sank too deep to reach the air?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: sleeping sperm whale · What happens: happen, sleep, sink, reach · To what, where: air

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 313 «Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale, orca, beluga and beaked whales» 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	_	9 sank	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 whale	det
6	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 whale	amod
7	sperm	sperm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 whale	compound
8	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sank	nsubj
9	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 deep	advmod
11	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sank	xcomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 reach	mark
13	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 deep	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 air	det
15	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reach	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sleep	gerund				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sink a condition, not said to happen	past	a sleeping sperm whale		deep property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	reach	to-infinitive	a sleeping sperm whale not said here	the air		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent air=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

It would float up by itself, with no need for any air

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 float	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 float	aux
3	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 float	compound:prt
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 itself	case
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 float	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 need	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 need	case
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 need	det
10	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 float	parataxis
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 air	case
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 air	det
13	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 need	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float up	would	It					by itself = it	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by itself=Trajectory

Option 2

It would breathe through its gills

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 gills	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 gills	nmod:poss
6	gills	gill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 breathe	obl

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

Option 3

It would sleep on the seabed for a year

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 sleep	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sleep	aux
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 seabed	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 seabed	det
6	seabed	seabed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleep	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 year	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	would	It			the seabed	year		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would have to wake and swim up to 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 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 wake	mark
5	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 swim	cc
7	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wake	conj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 swim	compound:prt
9	to	to	PART	_	10 breathe	mark
10	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 swim	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	have	would	It	tree rules
2	wake	to-infinitive		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	swim up	infinitive		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	breathe	to-infinitive		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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