Test 6 · ★★ · Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus

What would happen if a mother wombat's pouch faced forwards like a kangaroo's?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pouch · What happens: happen, face · To what, where: forwards

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 104 «Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus» 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	_	10 faced	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wombat	det
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wombat	compound
7	wombat	wombat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pouch	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 wombat	case
9	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 faced	nsubj
10	faced	face	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	forwards	forward	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 faced	obj
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 kangaroo	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 kangaroo	det
14	kangaroo	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 forwards	nmod
15	's	's	PART	_	14 kangaroo	case
16	?	?	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	face a condition, not said to happen	past	a mother wombat's pouch	forwards				like a kangaroo	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forward=Destination

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

Nothing at all would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	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 · ← Mova's choice

The baby would dig its own burrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 baby	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dig	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dig	aux
4	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 burrow	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 burrow	amod
7	burrow	burrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dig	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	would	the baby	baby's own burrow					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent burrow=Theme

Option 3

The baby would see better and grow faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 baby	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 see	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 grow	cc
7	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 see	conj
8	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	would	the baby					well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	grow	present	the baby not said here					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Soil would fly into it while she digs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fly	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fly	obl
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 digs	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 digs	nsubj
8	digs	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	would	Soil			it			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=Destination
2	dig	present	Soil						vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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