Test 8 · Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth

What would happen to an old elephant whose sixth and last set of molars wore out?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: sixth set · What happens: happen, wear out

This is test 8 of lesson 351 «Teeth: baby teeth, grown-up teeth and wobbly teeth» 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	_	7 elephant	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 elephant	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 elephant	amod
7	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	12 set	nmod:poss
9	sixth	sixth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 set	amod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 last	cc
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sixth	conj
12	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wore	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 molars	case
14	molars	molar	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 set	nmod
15	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 elephant	acl:relcl
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 wore	compound:prt
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a old elephant	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wear out	past	sixth set of molars						vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

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 grow a seventh set straight away, then an eighth

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 set	det
5	seventh	seventh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 set	amod
6	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obj
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	3 grow	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 eighth	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 eighth	advmod
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 eighth	det
12	eighth	eighth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It	a seventh set				a eighth obl; away property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location set=Theme

Option 2

It would switch to drinking only 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 switch	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 switch	aux
3	switch	switch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 drinking	mark
5	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 switch	advcl
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 water	advmod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 switch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	switch	would	It	water					vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	drink	gerund							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It would start eating with its tusks

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 start	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 start	aux
3	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 start	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 tusks	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tusks	nmod:poss
7	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	It						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund						with its tusks	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

It could no longer chew its food properly

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	5 chew	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 chew	aux
3	no	no	ADV	_	4 longer	advmod
4	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 chew	advmod
5	chew	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 food	nmod:poss
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chew	obj
8	properly	properly	ADV	_	5 chew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chew	could	It	its food				long, properly property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

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