Test 6 · ★★ · The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises a…

What would happen to a beach of turtle eggs if the sand got warmer and warmer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sand · What happens: happen, get

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 88 «The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles» 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 beach	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 beach	det
6	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 eggs	case
8	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eggs	compound
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 beach	nmod
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 got	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sand	det
12	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	nsubj
13	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
14	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 got	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 warmer	cc
16	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 warmer	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a beach of turtle eggs	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get a condition, not said to happen	past	the sand					warm property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

All the eggs would hatch faster as males

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 eggs	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eggs	det
3	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hatch	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hatch	aux
5	hatch	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 hatch	advmod
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 males	case
8	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hatch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch	would	all eggs					as males; fast property	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient

Option 2

The eggs would turn into crocodiles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eggs	det
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 crocodiles	case
6	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the eggs					into crocodiles result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into crocodile=Result

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

More would hatch as females

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 hatch	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hatch	aux
3	hatch	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 females	case
5	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hatch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch	would	More					as females	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Nothing, warmth does not matter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 warmth	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 matter	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 matter	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 matter	advmod
6	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	Nothing warmth						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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