Test 6 · Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks

What would happen to a duck caught in an oil spill?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, catch · To what, where: duck, oil spill

This is test 6 of lesson 123 «Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck: real rabbits, hares and ducks» 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	_	6 duck	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 duck	det
6	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 duck	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 spill	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 spill	det
10	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spill	compound
11	spill	spill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 caught	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a duck	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	catch	participle		a duck not said here		a oil spill			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 oil wrecks its waterproofing, so it gets cold and may sink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 oil	det
2	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrecks	nsubj
3	wrecks	wreck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 waterproofing	nmod:poss
5	waterproofing	waterproofing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrecks	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gets	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 gets	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gets	nsubj
9	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrecks	conj
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gets	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sink	cc
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 sink	aux
13	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wrecks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wreck	present	the oil	oil's waterproofing		vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument waterproofing=Patient
2	get	present	oil		cold property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	sink	may	the oil not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	waterproof		oil			nom waterproofing «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Nothing, oil helps ducks float

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 oil	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 helps	nsubj
4	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 helps	obj
6	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 helps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	Nothing oil	ducks					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent duck=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	float	infinitive	ducks not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It would swim faster

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 swim	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 swim	aux
3	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 swim	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	would	It					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It would stay warm and dry, as oil keeps water out of feathers

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 stay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dry	cc
6	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 warm	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 keeps	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 keeps	mark
9	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 keeps	nsubj
10	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	advcl
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 keeps	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	14 feathers	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 feathers	case
14	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 keeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	It					warm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	present	oil	water		feathers			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme out feather=Location

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