Test 3 · ★ · Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinos…

What would happen to a giant cold-blooded snake moved to a cold country?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, move · To what, where: giant blooded snake, cold country

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 383 «Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises» 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	_	10 snake	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 snake	det
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 snake	amod
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 blooded	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 cold	punct
9	blooded	blooded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 snake	amod
10	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
11	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 snake	acl
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 country	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 country	det
14	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 country	amod
15	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 moved	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a giant blooded snake	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	move	participle		a giant blooded snake not said here		a cold country			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to country=Trajectory

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 right answer

It would be too cold to move and feed well

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 cold	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 cold	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 cold	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 cold	advmod
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 move	mark
7	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cold	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 feed	cc
9	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 move	conj
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 feed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	would	It	cold property	tree rules
2	move	to-infinitive			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	feed	infinitive		well property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It would turn warm-blooded within a few years

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 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 blooded	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 warm	punct
6	blooded	blood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 turn	xcomp
7	within	within	ADP	_	10 years	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 years	det
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 years	amod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It				year		tree rules
2	blood	participle							tree rules

Option 3

It would fly south

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 fly	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	south	south	ADV	_	3 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	would	It					south property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It would grow even bigger

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	even	even	ADV	_	5 bigger	advmod
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It					big property	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.

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