Test 6 · ★★ · China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji…

How would you find your way if loud engine noise filled your ears and you used sound to see?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, engine noise · What happens: find, fill, sound, see · To what, where: way, ears

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 379 «China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 find	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 find	nsubj
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 filled	mark
8	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 engine	amod
9	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 noise	compound
10	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 filled	nsubj
11	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 find	advcl
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 ears	nmod:poss
13	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 filled	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sound	cc
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 sound	nsubj
16	used	used	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 sound	aux
17	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 filled	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 see	mark
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 sound	xcomp
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	find	would	you	your way	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic
2	fill a condition, not said to happen	participle	engine noise	your ears	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ear=Patient
3	sound		you		tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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

You would just use your eyes instead, as baiji did in muddy water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 use	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 use	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 use	advmod
4	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eyes	nmod:poss
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	obj
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 use	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 did	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 did	mark
10	baiji	baiji	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 did	nsubj
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 use	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 water	case
13	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 water	amod
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 did	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	would	You	your eyes				instead property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	do	past	baiji			muddy water			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Noise makes echoes louder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	echoes	echo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Noise	echoes				loud property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset echo=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

You would get lost, like a baiji whose echoes were drowned out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux
3	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 lost	aux:pass
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 baiji	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 baiji	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 baiji	det
8	baiji	baiji	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obl
9	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	10 echoes	nmod:poss
10	echoes	echo	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 drowned	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 drowned	aux:pass
12	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 baiji	acl:relcl
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 drowned	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would · passive		You				like a baiji	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	drown out	past · passive		echoes					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

You would see better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	would	You					well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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