Test 9 · ★★ · The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301…

What would happen if a dolphin fell fully asleep like a person, with its whole brain at once?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dolphin · What happens: happen, fall

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 400 «The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399» 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	_	7 fell	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dolphin	det
6	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	nsubj
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	fully	fully	ADV	_	9 asleep	advmod
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fell	xcomp
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 person	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 person	det
12	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asleep	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 brain	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 brain	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 brain	nmod:poss
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 brain	amod
17	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 once	case
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 happen	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						with dolphin's whole brain	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
2	fall a condition, not said to happen	past	a dolphin					asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 could forget to come up for air and drown

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 forget	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 forget	aux
3	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 come	mark
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forget	xcomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 come	compound:prt
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 air	case
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 drown	cc
10	drown	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forget	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	forget	could	It		tree rules
2	not come up	to-infinitive		for air	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	drown	infinitive			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would sink and breathe 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 sink	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sink	aux
3	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 breathe	cc
5	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sink	conj
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breathe	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	would	It						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	breathe	infinitive		water					vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 3

It would sleep better than ever and wake up full of energy

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 sleep	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sleep	aux
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 sleep	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 ever	case
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 sleep	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wake	cc
8	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sleep	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 wake	compound:prt
10	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wake	xcomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 energy	case
12	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	would	It					well property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wake up	present						full property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Nothing, dolphins can breathe under water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 dolphins	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	dolphins	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 breathe	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 breathe	aux
5	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	under	under	ADP	_	7 water	case
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breathe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	can	Nothing dolphins			water			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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