Test 5 · ★★ · The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel,…

What would happen if a crab never moulted?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, not moult · To what, where: crab

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 404 «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab» 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	_	8 moulted	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crab	det
6	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 moulted	nsubj:pass
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 moulted	advmod
8	moulted	moult	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not moult a condition, not said to happen	participle · passive		a crab					tree rules

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 grow any 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	4 grow	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 grow	advmod
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 bigger	det
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not grow	could	It					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Its shell would go soft for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 shell	nmod:poss
2	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 go	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 ever	case
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	Its shell					soft property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for ever=Beneficiary

Option 3

It would turn into a lobster

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	into	into	ADP	_	6 lobster	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lobster	det
6	lobster	lobster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It			a lobster			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into lobster=Trajectory

Option 4

It would grow too fast

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	too	too	ADV	_	5 fast	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 grow	advmod

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