Test 3 · Feeding times and the zoo kitchen

What would happen if every one of a thousand visitors threw a monkey one crisp?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one · What happens: happen, throw · To what, where: one crisp, monkey

This is test 3 of lesson 111 «Feeding times and the zoo kitchen» 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	_	11 threw	mark
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 threw	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 visitors	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 thousand	det
9	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 visitors	nummod
10	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
11	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 monkey	det
13	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 threw	obj
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 crisp	nummod
15	crisp	crisp	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 threw	obj
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	throw a condition, not said to happen	past	every one of thousand visitors	one crisp	a monkey				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Destination crisp=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

The keepers would stop feeding them their meals, so it evens out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 keepers	det
2	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	feeding	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 feeding	obj
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 meals	nmod:poss
8	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 feeding	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 evens	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 evens	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 evens	nsubj
12	evens	even	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	advcl
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 evens	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	stop	would	the keepers		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	feed	gerund	the keepers not said here	keepers = keeper	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient meal=Theme
3	even out	present	it		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Nothing, one crisp is too small to matter

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 small	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 crisp	nummod
4	crisp	crisp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 small	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 small	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 small	advmod
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 matter	mark
9	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 small	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	one crisp					small property	tree rules
2	matter	to-infinitive	one crisp not said here						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

The monkeys would refuse every crisp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monkeys	det
2	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 refuse	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 refuse	aux
4	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 crisp	det
6	crisp	crisp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 refuse	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	would	the monkeys	every crisp					vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crisp=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The monkeys would get far too much and could get fat or ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 monkeys	det
2	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 much	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 get	cc
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 get	aux
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	conj
11	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 get	xcomp
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 ill	cc
13	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the monkeys	much					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus
2	get	could	the monkeys not said here					fat property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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