--- title: What would happen if a great white stopped swimming for a long time? — Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bu… · tree and pragmatics description: What would happen if a great white stopped swimming for a long time? Test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 310 «Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead» 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 righ --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bu…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★★★ · Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead What would happen if a great white stopped swimming for a long time? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** great white · **What happens:** happen, stop, swim This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 310 «Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead» 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/310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead:t8:1 # text = What would happen if a great white stopped swimming for a long time? 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 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 white white NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 9 swimming swim VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 xcomp _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | 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 | **stop** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a great white | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **swim** | gerund | a great white *not said here* | | | | time | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Too little water would flow over its gills ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead:t8:o1:1 # text = Too little water would flow over its gills 1 Too too ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 flow flow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 over over ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 gills gill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flow** | would | little water | | | water's gills | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over gill=Location | ### Option 2 {#o2} It would grow legs ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead:t8:o2:1 # text = It would grow legs 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 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | would | It | legs | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leg=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} It would warm up and float ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead:t8:o3:1 # text = It would warm up and float 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 warm warm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 float float VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **warm up** | would | It | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **float** | present | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} It would breathe much better and feel rested ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead:t8:o4:1 # text = It would breathe much better and feel rested 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 breathe breathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 much much ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 xcomp _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 8 rested rest VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **breathe** | would | It | | | | | good *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **feel** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **rest** | participle | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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. 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