Test 3 · ★ · Senses: eyes and ears

What would happen if your iris could not change the pupil's size?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: iris · What happens: happen, not change · To what, where: size

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 69 «Senses: eyes and ears» 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	_	9 change	mark
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 iris	nmod:poss
6	iris	iris	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 change	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 change	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 change	advmod
9	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happen	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pupil	det
11	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 size	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 pupil	case
13	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 change	obj
14	?	?	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 change a condition, not said to happen	could	your iris	the pupil's size					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=Patient

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

You would only see in black and white, like an old film on television

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 black	case
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 see	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 white	cc
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 black	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 film	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 film	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 film	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 film	amod
13	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obl
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 television	case
15	television	television	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 film	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	would	You			black		like a old film on television	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

You could not see at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	could	You			all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Bright light would dazzle you and dim light would be harder to see in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 light	amod
2	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dazzle	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dazzle	aux
4	dazzle	dazzle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 dazzle	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 harder	cc
7	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 light	amod
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 harder	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 harder	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 harder	cop
11	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 dazzle	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 harder	xcomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	13 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dazzle	would	Bright light	you		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
2	is	would	dim light		hard property	tree rules
3	see in	to-infinitive	dim light not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Nothing, the pupil does not matter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pupil	det
4	pupil	pupil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 matter	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 matter	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 matter	advmod
7	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	the pupil						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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