Test 6 · The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and ant…

What would happen if the zoo put the lions in with the zebras?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: zoo · What happens: happen, put in · To what, where: lions

This is test 6 of lesson 101 «The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and antelopes» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 put	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 zoo	det
6	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	nsubj
7	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lions	det
9	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 put	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	7 put	compound:prt
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 zebras	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 zebras	det
13	zebras	zebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 put	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	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	put in a condition, not said to happen	past	the zoo		the lions			with the zebras	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lion=Goal

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

Option 1

The zebras would chase the lions away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 zebras	det
2	zebras	zebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chase	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 chase	aux
4	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lions	det
6	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chase	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 chase	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase away	would	the zebras	the lions				away property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The lions would hunt them and the zebras would panic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lions	det
2	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hunt	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hunt	aux
4	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hunt	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 panic	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 zebras	det
8	zebras	zebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 panic	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 panic	aux
10	panic	panic	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hunt	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	would	the lions	them = they					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	panic	would	the zebras						vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They would share the grass peacefully

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 share	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 share	aux
3	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grass	det
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 share	obj
6	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	_	3 share	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	would	They	the grass				peacefully property	tree rules

Option 4

Nothing, because zoo lions quickly forget how to hunt at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 forget	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 forget	mark
4	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lions	compound
5	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 forget	nsubj
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	7 forget	advmod
7	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	conj
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 hunt	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 hunt	mark
10	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 forget	xcomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 hunt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	present	zoo lions					quickly property	tree rules
2	not hunt	to-infinitive	zoo lions not said here			all			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at all=Location

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