Test 9 · ★ · Sleep and the body clock

What would happen if you lived in a cave with no clocks and no daylight for weeks?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, live · To what, where: cave

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 127 «Sleep and the body clock» of the world 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 lived	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 cave	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cave	det
9	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 clocks	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 clocks	det
12	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cave	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 daylight	cc
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 daylight	det
15	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cave	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 weeks	case
17	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lived	obl
18	?	?	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	live a condition, not said to happen	past	you			a cave with no clocks and no daylight	week		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location

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

You would stop sleeping altogether

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 stop	xcomp
5	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	4 sleeping	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	You						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	sleep	gerund	You not said here					altogether property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Your body would switch to a 12-hour day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 body	nmod:poss
2	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 switch	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 switch	aux
4	switch	switch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 day	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	12-hour	12-hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 day	compound
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 switch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	switch	would	Your body				day		vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

You would fall asleep and wake up at totally random times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 fall	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fall	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wake	cc
6	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	conj
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 wake	compound:prt
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 times	case
9	totally	totally	ADV	_	10 random	advmod
10	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 times	amod
11	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wake	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	You					asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wake up	present	You not said here				time		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Your body clock would keep running on about 24 hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 clock	nmod:poss
2	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clock	compound
3	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	aux
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 hours	case
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 24	advmod
9	24	24	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 hours	nummod
10	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 running	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	Your body clock						tree rules
2	run	gerund	Your body clock not said here				hour		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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