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title: What would happen to a duck caught in an oil spill? — Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbit… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to a duck caught in an oil spill? Test 6 of lesson 123 «Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 6 · Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks

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What would happen to a duck caught in an oil spill?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** happen, catch · **To what, where:** duck, oil spill

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This is test 6 of lesson 123 «Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/123-bugs-bunny-and-daffy-duck-real-rabbits-hares-and-ducks/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:123-bugs-bunny-and-daffy-duck-real-rabbits-hares-and-ducks:t6:1
# text = What would happen to a duck caught in an oil spill?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	spill	spill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | to a duck | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **catch** | participle |  | a duck *not said here* |  | a oil spill |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The oil wrecks its waterproofing, so it gets cold and may sink

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:123-bugs-bunny-and-daffy-duck-real-rabbits-hares-and-ducks:t6:o1:1
# text = The oil wrecks its waterproofing, so it gets cold and may sink
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wrecks	wreck	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	waterproofing	waterproofing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wreck** | present | the oil | oil's waterproofing |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument waterproofing=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | present | oil |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **sink** | may | the oil *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **waterproof** |  | oil |  |  |  |  |  | nom waterproofing «act transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, oil helps ducks float

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:123-bugs-bunny-and-daffy-duck-real-rabbits-hares-and-ducks:t6:o2:1
# text = Nothing, oil helps ducks float
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	float	float	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | Nothing oil | ducks |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent duck=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 2 | **float** | infinitive | ducks *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would swim faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:123-bugs-bunny-and-daffy-duck-real-rabbits-hares-and-ducks:t6:o3:1
# text = It would swim faster
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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It would stay warm and dry, as oil keeps water out of feathers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:123-bugs-bunny-and-daffy-duck-real-rabbits-hares-and-ducks:t6:o4:1
# text = It would stay warm and dry, as oil keeps water out of feathers
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | would | It |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | present | oil | water |  | feathers |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme out feather=Location |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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