Test 6 · ★ · The axolotl, the tardigrade and the mantis shrimp

What would happen if a wet, active tardigrade were dried out very fast in a hot oven?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, dry out · To what, where: wet active tardigrade, hot oven

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 44 «The axolotl, the tardigrade and the mantis shrimp» 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 dried	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tardigrade	det
6	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tardigrade	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wet	punct
8	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tardigrade	amod
9	tardigrade	tardigrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dried	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dried	aux:pass
11	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 dried	compound:prt
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 fast	advmod
14	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 dried	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 oven	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 oven	det
17	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 oven	amod
18	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dried	obl
19	?	?	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	dry out a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		a wet active tardigrade		a hot oven		fast property	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 · ← Mova's choice

It would turn into a tun at once and be perfectly fine afterwards

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 tun	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tun	det
6	tun	tun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 turn	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fine	cc
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 fine	cop
11	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	12 fine	advmod
12	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turn	conj
13	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	3 turn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It			a tun		afterwards property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into tun=Source at once=Trajectory
2	is	infinitive						fine, perfectly property	tree rules

Option 2

It would lay eggs and fly away

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 lay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	aux
3	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lay	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fly	cc
6	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lay	conj
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	would	It	eggs					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
2	fly away	infinitive						away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It would probably die, because it needs time to become a tun

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 die	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 die	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 die	advmod
4	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 needs	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 needs	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 needs	nsubj
8	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 die	parataxis
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 needs	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 become	mark
11	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 needs	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tun	det
13	tun	tun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	die	would	It			probably property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	need	present	it		time		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	become	to-infinitive		a tun			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It would grow 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	3 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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