Test 5 · ★ · Animals in the sea and the river

What would happen if a dolphin fell fully asleep with its whole brain, like we do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dolphin, we · What happens: happen, fall, do

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 11 «Animals in the sea and the river» of the myths 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	_	7 fell	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dolphin	det
6	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	nsubj
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	fully	fully	ADV	_	9 asleep	advmod
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fell	xcomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 brain	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 brain	nmod:poss
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 brain	amod
13	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asleep	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 do	punct
15	like	like	SCONJ	_	17 do	mark
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 do	nsubj
17	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall a condition, not said to happen	past	a dolphin	asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	present	we		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 at all would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would sink and breathe water

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	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 breathe	cc
5	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sink	conj
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breathe	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	would	It						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	breathe	infinitive		water					vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It might forget to come up to breathe

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 forget	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 forget	aux
3	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 come	mark
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forget	xcomp
6	up	up	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 breathe	mark
8	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	forget	might	It	tree rules
2	not come up	to-infinitive		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	breathe	to-infinitive		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It would sleep better and live longer

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 sleep	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sleep	aux
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 sleep	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 live	cc
6	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sleep	conj
7	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	would	It					well property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	live	present						long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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