--- title: What would happen if a giraffe's heart were as weak as ours for its… — More record-breakers and oddballs: slo… · tree and pragmatics description: What would happen if a giraffe's heart were as weak as ours for its size? Test 6 of lesson 45 «More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/t6/) [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/) / [More record-breakers and oddballs: slo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/) / t6 # Test 6 · More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chamele… What would happen if a giraffe's heart were as weak as ours for its size? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** heart · **What happens:** happen, be This is test 6 of lesson 45 «More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe» 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/45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe/#t6). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe:t6:1 # text = What would happen if a giraffe's heart were as weak as ours for its size? 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 _ 11 mark _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 giraffe giraffe NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 as as ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 12 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 ours our PRON PRP Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ? ? 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 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a giraffe's heart | | | | | as ours; for heart's size; weak *property* | tree rules | 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} It would grow even taller ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe:t6:o1:1 # text = It would grow even taller 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 even even ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 taller tall ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | would | It | | | | | tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} Nothing, any heart at all can pump blood that high up ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe:t6:o2:1 # text = Nothing, any heart at all can pump blood that high up 1 Nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 4 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 4 nmod _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 pump pump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 high high VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pump** | can | Nothing | blood | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent blood=Theme | | 2 | **high up** | present | blood | | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Not enough blood would reach its brain high up ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe:t6:o3:1 # text = Not enough blood would reach its brain high up 1 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 2 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 high high ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 9 up up ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **reach** | would | enough blood | blood's brain | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent brain=Theme | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} It would have to drink twice as much ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:45-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe:t6:o4:1 # text = It would have to drink twice as much 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 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 8 advmod _ _ 7 as as ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | would | It | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **drink** | to-infinitive | | much | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | **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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