Test 3 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2:…

What would happen now if Jaguar dropped one of them in the water?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jaguar · What happens: happen, drop · To what, where: one, water

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 83 «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name» of the books 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	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 happen	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 dropped	mark
6	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dropped	nsubj
7	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 dropped	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 one	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 water	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dropped	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					now		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drop a condition, not said to happen	past	Jaguar	one of them		the water			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme in water=Destination

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

It would curl up and sink quickly

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	3 curl	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 curl	aux
3	curl	curl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 curl	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sink	cc
6	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 curl	conj
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 curl	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curl up	would	It					quickly property	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme
2	sink	infinitive							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It would swim away, since both can swim

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	3 swim	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 swim	aux
3	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 swim	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 swim	punct
6	since	since	SCONJ	_	9 swim	mark
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	9 swim	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 swim	aux
9	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 swim	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim away	would	It					away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	swim	can	both						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It would sink to the bottom

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	3 sink	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sink	aux
3	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 bottom	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bottom	det
6	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sink	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	would	It					to the bottom	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It would swim away at once, and Jaguar would have to chase both of them along the river bank

The tree, 19 words

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	3 swim	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 swim	aux
3	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 swim	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 swim	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 have	cc
9	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 have	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 swim	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 chase	mark
13	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 have	xcomp
14	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	13 chase	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 both	nmod
17	along	along	ADP	_	20 bank	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bank	det
19	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bank	compound
20	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chase	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swim away	would	It			away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory
2	have	would	Jaguar				tree rules
3	chase	to-infinitive	Jaguar not said here	both	the river bank		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent both=Theme along bank=Trajectory

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