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title: What would happen to a grey whale baby born in the icy Arctic instea… — Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blu… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to a grey whale baby born in the icy Arctic instead of a warm lagoon? Test 6 of lesson 312 «Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 6 · Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, gr…

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What would happen to a grey whale baby born in the icy Arctic instead of a warm lagoon?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** happen, bear · **To what, where:** grey whale baby, icy Arctic

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This is test 6 of lesson 312 «Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke» 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/312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t6:1
# text = What would happen to a grey whale baby born in the icy Arctic instead of a warm lagoon?
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	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	lagoon	lagoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | to a grey whale baby | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** | participle |  | a grey whale baby *not said here* |  | the icy Arctic |  | instead a warm lagoon | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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It would turn into a polar bear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t6:o1:1
# text = It would turn into a polar bear
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	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would grow baleen faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t6:o2:1
# text = It would grow baleen 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	baleen	baleen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	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 | baleen |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location baleen=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing at all, babies like cold best and grow faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t6:o3:1
# text = Nothing at all, babies like cold best and grow faster
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nmod	_	_
8	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | Nothing |  |  |  |  | fast, well *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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It would struggle more, being thin and losing heat in the cold water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t6:o4:1
# text = It would struggle more, being thin and losing heat in the cold water
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	struggle	struggle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
7	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
10	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **struggle** | would | It | more |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | thin *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lose** | gerund |  | heat |  | the cold water |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Eventuality |

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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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