Test 6 · ★★ · Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphin…

What would happen to the shipwrecks if worms could live deep in the Black Sea?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: worms · What happens: happen, live · To what, where: Black Sea

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 374 «Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphins, sturgeon and gobies» 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	_	6 shipwrecks	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shipwrecks	det
6	shipwrecks	shipwreck	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 live	mark
8	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 live	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 live	aux
10	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happen	advcl
11	deep	deep	ADV	_	10 live	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 Sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Sea	det
14	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Sea	compound
15	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 live	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to the shipwrecks	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live a condition, not said to happen	could	worms			the Black Sea		deep property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location

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 ships would turn to gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ships	det
2	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 gold	case
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl

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

Option 2

Nothing, because worms never eat wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 eat	mark
4	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 eat	advmod
6	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	parataxis
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	present	worms	wood					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The wood would be eaten and the ships would fall apart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wood	det
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eaten	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eaten	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 eaten	aux:pass
5	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fall	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ships	det
8	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fall	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fall	aux
10	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 eaten	conj
11	apart	apart	ADV	_	10 fall	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would · passive		the wood					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	fall apart	would	the ships					apart property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

The ships would float back up to the surface by themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ships	det
2	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 float	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 float	aux
4	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	6 up	advmod
6	up	up	ADV	_	4 float	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 surface	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 surface	det
9	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 float	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 themselves	case
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 float	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	would	the ships			the surface		by ships = ship	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to surface=Source by themselves=Trajectory

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