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title: What would happen to an earthworm left on a hot, dry pavement all af… — Worms, snails and slugs · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to an earthworm left on a hot, dry pavement all afternoon? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 217 «Worms, snails and slugs» 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 3 · ★ · Worms, snails and slugs

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What would happen to an earthworm left on a hot, dry pavement all afternoon?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** happen, leave · **To what, where:** earthworm, hot dry pavement

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 217 «Worms, snails and slugs» 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/217-worms-snails-and-slugs/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:217-worms-snails-and-slugs:t3:1
# text = What would happen to an earthworm left on a hot, dry pavement all afternoon?
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	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	earthworm	earthworm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	pavement	pavement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  | afternoon | to a earthworm | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | participle |  | a earthworm *not said here* |  | a hot dry pavement |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on pavement=Location |

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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 slowly turn into a slug

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:217-worms-snails-and-slugs:t3:o1:1
# text = It would slowly turn into a slug
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	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	slug	slug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | It |  |  | a slug |  | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into slug=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, worms love dry heat and lie in the sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:217-worms-snails-and-slugs:t3:o2:1
# text = Nothing, worms love dry heat and lie in the sun
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present | Nothing worms | dry heat |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heat=Stimulus |
| 2 | **lie** | present | Nothing worms *not said here* |  |  | the sun |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun=Location |

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

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It would dry out and could not breathe through its skin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:217-worms-snails-and-slugs:t3:o3:1
# text = It would dry out and could not breathe through its skin
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	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry out** | would | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **breathe** | could |  |  |  | its skin |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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It would grow a hard shell to save itself from the heat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:217-worms-snails-and-slugs:t3:o4:1
# text = It would grow a hard shell to save itself from the heat
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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | It | a hard shell |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shell=Theme |
| 2 | **save** | to-infinitive |  | shell |  | the heat |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent itself=Theme from heat=Source |

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