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title: What would happen now if Jaguar dropped one of them in the water? — Just So Stories, The Beginning of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen now if Jaguar dropped one of them in the water? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 83 «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 3 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2:…

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What would happen now if Jaguar dropped one of them in the water?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jaguar · **What happens:** happen, drop · **To what, where:** one, water

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 83 «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name» of the books 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/books/83-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:83-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo:t3:1
# text = What would happen now if Jaguar dropped one of them in the water?
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	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drop** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Jaguar | one of them |  | the water |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme in water=Destination |

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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 {#o1}

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It would curl up and sink quickly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:83-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo:t3:o1:1
# text = It would curl up and sink quickly
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	curl	curl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **curl up** | would | It |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sink** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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It would swim away, since both can swim

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:83-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo:t3:o2:1
# text = It would swim away, since both can swim
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	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim away** | would | It |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **swim** | can | both |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would sink to the bottom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:83-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo:t3:o3:1
# text = It would sink to the bottom
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	_	_
```

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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 |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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It would swim away at once, and Jaguar would have to chase both of them along the river bank

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:83-justso-armadillos-2-the-first-armadillo:t3:o4:1
# text = It would swim away at once, and Jaguar would have to chase both of them along the river bank
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	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	chase	chase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	along	along	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim away** | would | It |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory |
| 2 | **have** | would | Jaguar |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **chase** | to-infinitive | Jaguar *not said here* | both |  | the river bank |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent both=Theme along bank=Trajectory |

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