Test 8 · ★★ · The penguin pool

What would happen if you drank lots of seawater?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, drink · To what, where: lots

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 99 «The penguin pool» 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	_	6 drank	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 drank	nsubj
6	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 drank	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 seawater	case
9	seawater	seawater	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lots	nmod
10	?	?	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	drink a condition, not said to happen	past	you	lots of seawater					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=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 just sneeze all the extra salt out like a penguin does

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 sneeze	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sneeze	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 sneeze	advmod
4	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 salt	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 salt	det
7	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 salt	amod
8	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sneeze	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	4 sneeze	compound:prt
10	like	like	SCONJ	_	13 does	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 penguin	det
12	penguin	penguin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 does	nsubj
13	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sneeze	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneeze out	would	You	all extra salt					tree rules
2	do	present	a penguin						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nothing, people can drink seawater

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	_	5 drink	punct
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drink	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 drink	aux
5	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	acl:relcl
6	seawater	seawater	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	can	people	seawater					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seawater=Patient

Option 3

You would float better in the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 float	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 float	aux
3	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 float	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 float	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	would	You			the sea		well property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

You would become thirstier and ill, as you have no salt gland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	thirstier	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 become	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 ill	cc
6	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thirstier	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 have	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 become	parataxis
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 gland	det
12	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gland	compound
13	gland	gland	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	You					thirsty property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	have	present	you	no salt gland					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gland=Patient

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