Test 5 · The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog re…

What would happen if a frog's skin dried out?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, dry out · To what, where: skin

This is test 5 of lesson 89 «The amphibian room: poison frogs, axolotls and the frog rescue» 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 dried	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 frog	det
6	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 skin	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 frog	case
8	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dried	nsubj:pass
9	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 dried	compound:prt
11	?	?	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	participle · passive		a frog's skin					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

Nothing, frog skin is waterproof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 skin	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skin	compound
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 waterproof	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 waterproof	cop
6	waterproof	waterproof	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing frog skin					waterproof property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would just breathe faster through its nose instead

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 breathe	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 breathe	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 breathe	advmod
4	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 breathe	advmod
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 nose	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 nose	nmod:poss
8	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 breathe	obl
9	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 breathe	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	would	It			its nose		fast, instead property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It would slowly turn into a toad

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 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 toad	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 toad	det
7	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It					into a toad result; slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into toad=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It could not breathe properly

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 breathe	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 breathe	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 breathe	advmod
4	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	properly	properly	ADV	_	4 breathe	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not breathe	could	It					properly property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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