Test 5 · ★ · The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mand…

What would happen if a snake reached a hornbill's nest hole?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snake · What happens: happen, reach · To what, where: nest hole

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 126 «The Lion King's hyenas, Rafiki and Zazu: real hyenas, mandrills and hornbills» 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	_	7 reached	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 snake	det
6	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reached	nsubj
7	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hornbill	det
9	hornbill	hornbill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hole	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 hornbill	case
11	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hole	compound
12	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reached	obj
13	?	?	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	reach a condition, not said to happen	past	a snake	a hornbill's nest hole					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hole=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

The male would push it in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 male	det
2	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 push	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 push	aux
4	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 push	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	4 push	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push in	would	the male	it					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The mud wall leaves only a slit too narrow to get in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wall	det
2	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wall	compound
3	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaves	nsubj
4	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 slit	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 slit	det
7	slit	slit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaves	obj
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 narrow	advmod
9	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 slit	amod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 get	mark
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 narrow	advcl
12	in	in	ADV	_	11 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	the mud wall	a slit					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slit=Theme
2	get in	to-infinitive	the mud wall not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It would eat the chicks easily through the open hole

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 eat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chicks	det
5	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
6	easily	easily	ADV	_	3 eat	advmod
7	through	through	ADP	_	10 hole	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hole	det
9	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hole	amod
10	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would	It	the chicks		the open hole		easily property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chick=Patient

Option 4

The mother would fly away at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fly	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fly	aux
4	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 fly	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	would	the mother					away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at once=Location

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