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title: What would happen if a guinea pig got only dry pellets and no vitami… — Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vi… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a guinea pig got only dry pellets and no vitamin C for weeks? Test 4 of lesson 201 «Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C» 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 right.
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# Test 4 · Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C

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What would happen if a guinea pig got only dry pellets and no vitamin C for weeks?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** guinea pig · **What happens:** happen, get · **To what, where:** dry pellets

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This is test 4 of lesson 201 «Guinea pigs: wheeks, popcorning and vitamin C» 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/201-guinea-pigs-wheeks-popcorning-and-vitamin-c/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:201-guinea-pigs-wheeks-popcorning-and-vitamin-c:t4:1
# text = What would happen if a guinea pig got only dry pellets and no vitamin C for weeks?
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	_	8	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	guinea	guinea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	pellets	pellet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
14	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	C	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	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 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a guinea pig | dry pellets and no vitamin C |  |  | week |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pellet=Stimulus |

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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 {#o1}

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It would start to hibernate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:201-guinea-pigs-wheeks-popcorning-and-vitamin-c:t4:o1:1
# text = It would start to hibernate
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	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	hibernate	hibernate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | would | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **hibernate** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing at all, because it makes its own vitamin C inside its body

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:201-guinea-pigs-wheeks-popcorning-and-vitamin-c:t4:o2:1
# text = Nothing at all, because it makes its own vitamin C inside its body
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	C	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Nothing | its own vitamin C |  | C's body |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material c=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would grow faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:201-guinea-pigs-wheeks-popcorning-and-vitamin-c:t4:o3:1
# text = It would grow 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	grow	grow	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 | **grow** | would | It |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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It could get scurvy, with sore joints and bleeding gums

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:201-guinea-pigs-wheeks-popcorning-and-vitamin-c:t4:o4:1
# text = It could get scurvy, with sore joints and bleeding gums
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	scurvy	scurvy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	joints	joint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	bleeding	bleed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
11	gums	gum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | could | It | scurvy |  |  |  | with sore joints | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scurvy=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bleed** | gerund |  | gums |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent gum=Source |

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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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