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title: What would happen to a lowland goose that tried to fly as high as a… — Mountains of the world: snow leopards,… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to a lowland goose that tried to fly as high as a bar-headed goose? Test 6 of lesson 183 «Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 6 · Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese,…

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What would happen to a lowland goose that tried to fly as high as a bar-headed goose?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lowland goose · **What happens:** happen, try, fly, head

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This is test 6 of lesson 183 «Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders» 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/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders:t6:1
# text = What would happen to a lowland goose that tried to fly as high as a bar-headed goose?
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	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	lowland	lowland	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	headed	head	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	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 lowland goose | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **try** | past | a lowland goose |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **fly** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a lowland goose *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **head** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conduct-111.1 «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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It would struggle to get enough oxygen from the thin air

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders:t6:o1:1
# text = It would struggle to get enough oxygen from the thin air
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	struggle	struggle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **struggle** | would | It |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive |  | enough oxygen |  | the thin air |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme from air=Source |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would turn into a bar-headed goose, which can fly very high

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders:t6:o2:1
# text = It would turn into a bar-headed goose, which can fly very high
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	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	headed	head	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | It |  |  |  |  | into a headed goose *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into goose=Result |
| 2 | **head** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fly** | can |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It would be warmer up there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders:t6:o3:1
# text = It would be warmer up there
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | It |  |  | there |  | warm *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It would fly even faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders:t6:o4:1
# text = It would fly even 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	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	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 | **fly** | would | It |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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