Test 7 · ★★ · Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital

What would happen if a new animal with a hidden disease joined the group at once?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: new animal · What happens: happen, join · To what, where: group

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 110 «Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital» 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	_	12 joined	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 animal	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animal	amod
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 joined	nsubj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 disease	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 disease	det
10	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 disease	amod
11	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 animal	nmod
12	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 group	det
14	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 joined	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 joined	obl
17	?	?	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	join a condition, not said to happen	past	a new animal with a hidden disease	the group					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=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 right answer

The disease could spread to the other animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 disease	det
2	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spread	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 spread	aux
4	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 animals	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 animals	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 animals	amod
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spread	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	could	the disease					to the other animals	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The others would make it better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 others	det
2	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	obj
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	the others	it				good property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, as zoo animals cannot catch any diseases

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	_	8 catch	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 catch	mark
4	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 animals	compound
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 catch	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 catch	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 catch	advmod
8	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	conj
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 diseases	det
10	diseases	disease	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not catch	can	zoo animals	any diseases					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disease=Theme

Option 4

The disease would disappear in the crowd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 disease	det
2	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disappear	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 disappear	aux
4	disappear	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 crowd	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crowd	det
7	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disappear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	would	the disease			the crowd			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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