Test 4 · ★★ · Mountains: life as you climb higher

What would happen to a pika that sat in hot sunshine all afternoon?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: pika · What happens: happen, sit · To what, where: hot sunshine

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Mountains: life as you climb higher» 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 pika	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pika	det
6	pika	pika	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 sat	nsubj
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pika	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 sunshine	case
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sunshine	amod
11	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 afternoon	det
13	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl:unmarked
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a pika	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	past	a pika			hot sunshine	afternoon		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sunshine=Location

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 right answer

It could overheat and die

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 overheat	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 overheat	aux
3	overheat	overheat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 die	cc
5	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 overheat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overheat	could	It						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	die	infinitive							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

It would fall asleep for the winter

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 fall	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fall	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 winter	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 winter	det
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	It				winter	asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It would grow a thicker coat

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 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 coat	det
5	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 coat	amod
6	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It	a thicker coat					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location coat=Theme

Option 4

Nothing, pikas love the heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 pikas	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	pikas	pika	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 love	nsubj
4	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heat	det
6	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 love	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	Nothing pikas	the heat					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heat=Stimulus

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