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# Test 9 · ★★ · The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301…

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What would happen if a dolphin fell fully asleep like a person, with its whole brain at once?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dolphin · **What happens:** happen, fall

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This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 400 «The big biology quiz, part 4: everything from lessons 301 to 399» 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/400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399:t9:1
# text = What would happen if a dolphin fell fully asleep like a person, with its whole brain at once?
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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | with dolphin's whole brain | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 2 | **fall** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a dolphin |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It could forget to come up for air and drown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399:t9:o1:1
# text = It could forget to come up for air and drown
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	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | could | It |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **come up** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for air | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **drown** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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It would sink and breathe water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399:t9:o2:1
# text = It would sink and breathe 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	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | would | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **breathe** | infinitive |  | water |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would sleep better than ever and wake up full of energy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399:t9:o3:1
# text = It would sleep better than ever and wake up full of energy
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	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	wake	wake	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | would | It |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wake up** | present |  |  |  |  |  | full *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing, dolphins can breathe under water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:400-the-big-biology-quiz-part-4-everything-from-lessons-301-to-399:t9:o4:1
# text = Nothing, dolphins can breathe under water
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	dolphins	dolphin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	breathe	breathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breathe** | can | Nothing dolphins |  |  | water |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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