Test 4 · Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs

What would happen to a Venus flytrap if every raindrop made it snap shut?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: raindrop, flytrap · What happens: happen, make, snap · To what, where: flytrap

This is test 4 of lesson 11 «Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs» 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	to	to	ADP	_	7 flytrap	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 flytrap	det
6	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 flytrap	compound
7	flytrap	flytrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 made	mark
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 raindrop	det
10	raindrop	raindrop	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	nsubj
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	obj
13	snap	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 made	xcomp
14	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 snap	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would			to a Venus flytrap	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make a condition, not said to happen	past	every raindrop	flytrap		tree rules
3	snap	infinitive	flytrap not said here		shut property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ← Mova's choice

It would catch many more insects than before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 catch	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 catch	aux
3	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 insects	amod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 insects	amod
6	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 catch	obj
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 before	case
8	before	before	ADV	_	3 catch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	would	It	many more insects					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It would waste lots of energy closing on nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 waste	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 waste	aux
3	waste	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 waste	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 energy	case
6	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lots	nmod
7	closing	close	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 lots	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 nothing	case
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 closing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	waste	would	It	lots of energy					vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument lot=Patient
2	close	gerund	lots of energy not said here			nothing			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It would grow twice as fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 grow	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It					fast, twice property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nothing, closing costs it no energy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 costs	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 closing	punct
3	closing	close	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Nothing	conj
4	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 costs	obj
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 energy	det
7	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 costs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	gerund	Nothing not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	cost	present	Nothing	it					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme it=Beneficiary energy=Value

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