Test 5 · ★ · The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep…

What would happen if an octopus tank had a loose lid?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: octopus tank · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: loose lid

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 92 «The aquarium: jellyfish, octopuses, sea stars and the deep sea» 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	_	8 had	mark
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tank	det
6	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tank	compound
7	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lid	det
10	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lid	amod
11	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
12	?	?	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	have a condition, not said to happen	past	a octopus tank	a loose lid					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=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 octopus might squeeze out and wander off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 octopus	det
2	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 squeeze	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 squeeze	aux
4	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 squeeze	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wander	cc
7	wander	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 squeeze	conj
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 wander	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze out	might	the octopus						vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	wander off	present	the octopus not said here						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The octopus would hide its ink in the gap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 octopus	det
2	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hide	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hide	aux
4	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ink	nmod:poss
6	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hide	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 gap	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gap	det
9	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	would	the octopus	octopus's ink		the gap			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ink=Patient in gap=Location

Option 3

Nothing, because octopuses can never leave the water

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	_	7 leave	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 leave	mark
4	octopuses	octopus	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 leave	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 leave	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 leave	advmod
7	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not leave	can	octopuses	the water					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 4

The other fish would swim out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fish	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fish	amod
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swim	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 swim	aux
5	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 swim	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim out	would	the other fish						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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