Test 7 · ★★★ · The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and g…

What would happen if a jaguar attacked a giant anteater?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: jaguar · What happens: happen, attack · To what, where: giant anteater

This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 108 «The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and giant otters» 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 attacked	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 jaguar	det
6	jaguar	jaguar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attacked	nsubj
7	attacked	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 anteater	det
9	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 anteater	amod
10	anteater	anteater	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 attacked	obj
11	?	?	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	attack a condition, not said to happen	past	a jaguar	a giant anteater					vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anteater=Patient

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 anteater would always be eaten at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 anteater	det
2	anteater	anteater	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eaten	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 eaten	aux
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 eaten	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 eaten	aux:pass
6	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 eaten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would · passive		the anteater				always property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The anteater could stand up and fight back with its claws

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 anteater	det
2	anteater	anteater	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stand	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stand	aux
4	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 stand	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fight	cc
7	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stand	conj
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 fight	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 claws	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 claws	nmod:poss
11	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fight	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand up	could	the anteater						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fight back	infinitive	the anteater not said here					with anteater's claws	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with claw=Co-Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The anteater would bite it hard with its long sharp front teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 anteater	det
2	anteater	anteater	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bite	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bite	aux
4	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bite	obj
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 bite	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	12 teeth	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 teeth	nmod:poss
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 teeth	amod
10	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 teeth	amod
11	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 teeth	amod
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	would	the anteater	it				with anteater's long sharp front teeth; hard property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with tooth=Instrument

Option 4

The anteater would climb a tree to escape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 anteater	det
2	anteater	anteater	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climb	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 climb	aux
4	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climb	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 escape	mark
8	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 climb	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	would	the anteater	a tree					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
2	escape	to-infinitive	the anteater not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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