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title: What would happen if pale pigs had no mud or shade on a hot sunny day? — Pigs: mud, snouts and brains · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if pale pigs had no mud or shade on a hot sunny day? Test 5 · ★★ of lesson 210 «Pigs: mud, snouts and brains» 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 5 · ★★ · Pigs: mud, snouts and brains

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What would happen if pale pigs had no mud or shade on a hot sunny day?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** pale pigs · **What happens:** happen, have · **To what, where:** mud

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 210 «Pigs: mud, snouts and brains» 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/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains:t5:1
# text = What would happen if pale pigs had no mud or shade on a hot sunny day?
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	_	7	mark	_	_
5	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	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 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | pale pigs | no mud or shade |  |  | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mud=Patient |

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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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Nothing, pigs love strong sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains:t5:o1:1
# text = Nothing, pigs love strong sun
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present | pigs | strong sun |  |  |  | Nothing *vocative* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They would turn black

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains:t5:o2:1
# text = They would turn black
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|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	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | They |  |  |  |  | black *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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

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They could overheat and get sunburnt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains:t5:o3:1
# text = They could overheat and get sunburnt
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	overheat	overheat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	sunburnt	sunburnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overheat** | could | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | infinitive | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sunburnt *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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They would sweat and stay cool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains:t5:o4:1
# text = They would sweat and stay cool
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sweat	sweat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweat** | would | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stay** | infinitive | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  | cool *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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