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title: What would happen to a dolphin if it fell completely asleep underwat… — Sleep and hibernation · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to a dolphin if it fell completely asleep underwater? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 55 «Sleep and hibernation» 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 right.
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# Test 6 · ★ · Sleep and hibernation

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What would happen to a dolphin if it fell completely asleep underwater?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** dolphin · **What happens:** happen, fall · **To what, where:** asleep underwater

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 55 «Sleep and hibernation» 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/55-sleep-and-hibernation/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:55-sleep-and-hibernation:t6:1
# text = What would happen to a dolphin if it fell completely asleep underwater?
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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	underwater	underwater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	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 dolphin | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | dolphin | asleep underwater |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient underwater=Result |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It could forget to come up and breathe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:55-sleep-and-hibernation:t6:o1:1
# text = It could forget to come up and breathe
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	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	breathe	breathe	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 |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **breathe** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, dolphins breathe water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:55-sleep-and-hibernation:t6:o2:1
# text = Nothing, dolphins breathe 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	4	nsubj	_	_
4	breathe	breathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would grow gills

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:55-sleep-and-hibernation:t6:o3:1
# text = It would grow gills
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	gills	gill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | It | gills |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gill=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It would sink to the bottom and sleep happily

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:55-sleep-and-hibernation:t6:o4:1
# text = It would sink to the bottom and sleep happily
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	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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