Test 6 · More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chamele…

What would happen if a giraffe's heart were as weak as ours for its size?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: heart · What happens: happen, be

This is test 6 of lesson 45 «More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe» 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 weak	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 giraffe	det
6	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heart	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 giraffe	case
8	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 weak	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 weak	cop
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 weak	advmod
11	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 happen	advcl
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 ours	case
13	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 weak	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 size	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 size	nmod:poss
16	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 weak	obl
17	?	?	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	is a condition, not said to happen	past	a giraffe's heart					as ours; for heart's size; weak property	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

It would grow even taller

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	even	even	ADV	_	5 taller	advmod
5	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	xcomp

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

Option 2

Nothing, any heart at all can pump blood that high up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 pump	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heart	punct
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 heart	det
4	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	appos
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 heart	nmod
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 pump	aux
8	pump	pump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pump	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 high	nsubj
11	high	high	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 blood	acl:relcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 high	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pump	can	Nothing	blood					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blood=Theme
2	high up	present	blood						tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Not enough blood would reach its brain high up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 reach	advmod
2	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 blood	amod
3	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reach	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 reach	aux
5	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 brain	nmod:poss
7	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reach	obj
8	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 up	advmod
9	up	up	ADV	_	5 reach	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not reach	would	enough blood	blood's brain					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent brain=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It would have to drink twice as much

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 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 drink	mark
5	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 much	advmod
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	It						tree rules
2	drink	to-infinitive		much					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient

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