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description: What would happen if a labrador with a thick waterproof coat and a greyhound with a thin coat both swam in a cold lake? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 192 «Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds

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What would happen if a labrador with a thick waterproof coat and a greyhound with a thin coat both swam in a cold lake?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** labrador · **What happens:** happen, swim · **To what, where:** cold lake

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 192 «Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds» 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/192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds:t6:1
# text = What would happen if a labrador with a thick waterproof coat and a greyhound with a thin coat both swam in a cold lake?
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	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	labrador	labrador	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	waterproof	waterproof	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	both	both	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 | **swim** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a labrador with a thick waterproof coat and a greyhound with a thin coat |  |  | a cold lake |  | both *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lake=Trajectory |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Both would feel the same

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds:t6:o1:1
# text = Both would feel the same
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | would | Both | the same |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The labrador would sink

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds:t6:o2:1
# text = The labrador would sink
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	labrador	labrador	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | would | the labrador |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The labrador would stay much warmer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds:t6:o3:1
# text = The labrador would stay much warmer
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	labrador	labrador	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | would | the labrador |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The greyhound would stay warmer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds:t6:o4:1
# text = The greyhound would stay warmer
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | would | the greyhound |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «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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