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title: What would happen to a polar bear if its fur got soaked and flat? — Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulat… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to a polar bear if its fur got soaked and flat? Test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 25 «Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sweat» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 3 · ★★★ · Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sweat

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What would happen to a polar bear if its fur got soaked and flat?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** happen, soak · **To what, where:** fur

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This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 25 «Keeping warm and keeping cool: insulation and sweat» of the physics 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/physics/25-keeping-warm-and-keeping-cool/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:25-keeping-warm-and-keeping-cool:t3:1
# text = What would happen to a polar bear if its fur got soaked and flat?
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	_	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	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	soaked	soak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	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 polar bear | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **soak** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | bear's fur |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |

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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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Nothing at all would change

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:25-keeping-warm-and-keeping-cool:t3:o1:1
# text = Nothing at all would change
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | would | Nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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It would lose heat faster, because the trapped air was gone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:25-keeping-warm-and-keeping-cool:t3:o2:1
# text = It would lose heat faster, because the trapped air was gone
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	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	trapped	trap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | would | It | heat |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Eventuality |
| 2 | **trap** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the trapped air |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would warm up faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:25-keeping-warm-and-keeping-cool:t3:o3:1
# text = It would warm up 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	warm	warm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
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 | **warm up** | would | It |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It would turn white all over

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:25-keeping-warm-and-keeping-cool:t3:o4:1
# text = It would turn white all over
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	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | It |  |  |  |  | over, white *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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