Test 5 · Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, t…

What would happen to an earthworm if its skin dried out in the sun?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, dry out · To what, where: skin, sun

This is test 5 of lesson 41 «Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth» 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	_	6 earthworm	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 earthworm	det
6	earthworm	earthworm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 dried	mark
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 skin	nmod:poss
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dried	nsubj:pass
10	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 dried	compound:prt
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 sun	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sun	det
14	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dried	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a earthworm	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dry out a condition, not said to happen	participle · passive		earthworm's skin		the sun			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

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

Nothing, worms love hot dry ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 worms	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 love	nsubj
4	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ground	amod
6	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ground	amod
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 love	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	Nothing worms	hot dry ground					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ground=Stimulus

Option 2

Its hearts would beat faster and save it

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 hearts	nmod:poss
2	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 beat	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 beat	aux
4	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 beat	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 save	cc
7	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 beat	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 save	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	would	Its hearts					fast property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	save	infinitive	Its hearts not said here	it					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It could not breathe and would die

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 breathe	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 breathe	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 breathe	advmod
4	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 die	cc
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 die	aux
7	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 breathe	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not breathe	could	It						vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	die	would							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It would breathe through its lungs instead

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 lungs	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lungs	nmod:poss
6	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 breathe	obl
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 breathe	advmod

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

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