Test 11 · ★★ · Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whi…

What would happen if a whiting tried to breathe on the beach like a porpoise does at the surface?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: whiting, porpoise · What happens: happen, try, breathe, do · To what, where: beach, surface

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 402 «Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar» 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 tried	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 whiting	det
6	whiting	whiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tried	nsubj
7	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 breathe	mark
9	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tried	xcomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 beach	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 beach	det
12	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 breathe	obl
13	like	like	SCONJ	_	16 does	mark
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 porpoise	det
15	porpoise	porpoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 does	nsubj
16	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 breathe	advcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 surface	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 surface	det
19	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 does	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try a condition, not said to happen	past	a whiting		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	breathe not said to happen	to-infinitive	a whiting not said here	the beach	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on beach=Destination
4	do	present	a porpoise	the surface	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

It could not, because fish take air from water with gills

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	2 could	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 take	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 could	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 take	mark
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 take	nsubj
7	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 water	case
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 gills	case
12	gills	gill	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	could	fish	air		water		with gills	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent air=Theme from water=Initial_Location

Option 2

It would hold its breath like a turtle

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 hold	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hold	aux
3	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 breath	nmod:poss
5	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hold	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 turtle	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 turtle	det
8	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	would	It	its breath				like a turtle	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme

Option 3

It would grow lungs after a few minutes

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	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obj
5	after	after	ADP	_	8 minutes	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 minutes	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 minutes	amod
8	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It	lungs			minute		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lung=Theme

Option 4

It would breathe through its blowhole easily

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 breathe	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 breathe	aux
3	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 blowhole	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 blowhole	nmod:poss
6	blowhole	blowhole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breathe	obl
7	easily	easily	ADV	_	3 breathe	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	would	It			its blowhole		easily property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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