Test 5 · ★★★ · Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish

What would happen if a squid's siphon were pointed forwards when it squirted?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: siphon · What happens: happen, be, squirt · To what, where: pointed forwards

This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 39 «Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish» 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 forwards	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 squid	det
6	squid	squid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 siphon	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 squid	case
8	siphon	siphon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 forwards	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 forwards	cop
10	pointed	pointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 forwards	amod
11	forwards	forward	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	advcl
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 squirted	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 squirted	nsubj
14	squirted	squirt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	a squid's siphon	pointed forwards	tree rules
3	squirt	past	siphon		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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 · ← Mova's choice

It would sink straight down

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 sink	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sink	aux
3	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 down	advmod
5	down	down	ADV	_	3 sink	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	would	It					down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It would shoot backwards, the opposite way to the 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 shoot	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 shoot	aux
3	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	3 shoot	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 way	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
7	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 way	amod
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shoot	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 way	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	would	It	the opposite way to the water				backwards property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It would shoot forwards too, in the same direction as the 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 shoot	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 shoot	aux
3	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	3 shoot	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	3 shoot	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 direction	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 direction	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 direction	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 direction	amod
10	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shoot	parataxis
11	as	as	ADP	_	13 water	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 direction	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	would	It					forwards property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It would not move at all

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	4 move	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 move	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 move	advmod
4	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not move	would	It			all			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory

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