Test 7 · ★ · Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs

What would happen if a baby's skull bones were joined tight at birth?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, join · To what, where: skull bones, birth

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 357 «Bones by name: the skull, jaw, spine and ribs» 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	_	11 joined	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 baby	det
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bones	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 baby	case
8	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bones	compound
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 joined	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 joined	aux:pass
11	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
12	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 joined	xcomp
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 birth	case
14	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 joined	obl
15	?	?	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	join a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		a baby's skull bones		birth		tight property	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

The baby's teeth would come through earlier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 baby	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 teeth	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 baby	case
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	through	through	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come through	would	the baby's teeth					early, through property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The baby would be much cleverer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 baby	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cleverer	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cleverer	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 cleverer	cop
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 cleverer	advmod
6	cleverer	clever	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the baby					clever property	tree rules

Option 3

Nothing would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

The head could not squeeze through so easily and the brain would have no room to grow

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 head	det
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 squeeze	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 squeeze	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 squeeze	advmod
5	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 easily	case
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 easily	advmod
8	easily	easily	ADV	_	5 squeeze	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 have	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 brain	det
11	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 squeeze	conj
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 room	det
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 grow	mark
17	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 room	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not squeeze	could	the head		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through easily=Trajectory
2	have	would	the brain	no room	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient
3	grow	to-infinitive	the brain not said here	no room not said here	vn appear-48.1.1 «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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/357-bones-by-name-the-skull-jaw-spine-and-ribs/t7/