Test 4 · ★★ · The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life

What would happen if a young male stayed in his pride forever?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: young male, male · What happens: happen, stay, pride · To what, where: pride

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 124 «The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life» 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	_	8 stayed	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 male	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 male	amod
7	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stayed	nsubj
8	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 pride	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 pride	nmod:poss
11	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stayed	obl
12	forever	forever	ADV	_	8 stayed	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stay a condition, not said to happen	past	a young male	male's pride	forever property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pride=Location
3	pride		male			nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, all males stay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 stay	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 males	det
4	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stay	nsubj
5	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	all males	Nothing					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The pride would leave him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pride	det
2	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leave	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 leave	aux
4	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	would	the pride	him = he					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He would compete with the grown males for the pride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 compete	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 compete	aux
3	compete	compete	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 males	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 males	det
6	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 males	amod
7	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 compete	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 pride	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pride	det
10	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 compete	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compete	would	He					with the grown males; for the pride	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with male=Co-Agent
2	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He would turn into a lioness and look after the cubs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 lioness	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lioness	det
6	lioness	lioness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 look	cc
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 turn	conj
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 cubs	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cubs	det
11	cubs	cub	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	He			a lioness			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into lioness=Trajectory
2	look	infinitive	He not said here				after the cubs		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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