Test 3 · ★★★ · Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sweat

What would happen to a polar bear if its fur got soaked and flat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, soak · To what, where: fur

This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 25 «Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sweat» of the physics 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	to	to	ADP	_	7 bear	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bear	det
6	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bear	amod
7	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 soaked	mark
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 fur	nmod:poss
10	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 soaked	nsubj:pass
11	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 soaked	aux:pass
12	soaked	soak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 flat	cc
14	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 soaked	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a polar bear	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	soak a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		bear's fur					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source

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

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 · ✓ the right answer

It would lose heat faster, because the trapped air was gone

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 lose	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 lose	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gone	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 gone	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 air	det
9	trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 air	amod
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gone	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gone	cop
12	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lose	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose	would	It	heat	fast property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Eventuality
2	trap	participle				vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the trapped air		gone property	tree rules

Option 3

It would warm up faster

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 warm	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 warm	aux
3	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 warm	compound:prt
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 warm	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm up	would	It					fast property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It would turn white all over

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 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turn	xcomp
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 over	advmod
6	over	over	ADV	_	3 turn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It					over, white property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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