Test 6 · ★ · The reptile house: snakes

What would happen if the reptile house heaters broke on a cold night?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: house heaters · What happens: happen, break

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 87 «The reptile house: snakes» 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 broke	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 reptile	det
6	reptile	reptile	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 house	compound
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heaters	compound
8	heaters	heater	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 broke	nsubj
9	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 night	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 night	det
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 night	amod
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 broke	obl
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	break a condition, not said to happen	past	house heaters				night		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

The snakes would get slow and could not digest food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snakes	det
2	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 digest	cc
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 digest	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 digest	advmod
9	digest	digest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	conj
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 digest	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the snakes					slow property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	not digest	could	the snakes not said here	food					tree rules

Option 2

The snakes would shed at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snakes	det
2	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shed	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 shed	aux
4	shed	shed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 shed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shed	would	the snakes						vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

Option 3

The snakes would warm themselves up by shivering, like we do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snakes	det
2	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 warm	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 warm	aux
4	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 warm	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 warm	compound:prt
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 shivering	mark
8	shivering	shiver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 warm	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
10	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 do	mark
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 do	nsubj
12	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 warm	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	warm up	would	the snakes	snakes = snake	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
2	shiver	gerund	the snakes not said here		vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	do	present	we		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nothing, snakes make their own heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 snakes	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heat	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 heat	amod
7	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Nothing snakes	snakes's own heat					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Product
2	heat		snakes = snake						nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent

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