Test 7 · Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and…

What would happen to a tar pit full of stuck deer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: happen

This is test 7 of lesson 131 «Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos» 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	_	7 pit	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pit	det
6	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pit	compound
7	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pit	amod
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 deer	case
10	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 deer	amod
11	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 full	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a tar pit	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Nothing, no animal would come near

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 come	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 animal	det
4	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	near	near	ADV	_	6 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	would	Nothing					near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The tar would turn into water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tar	det
2	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the tar			water			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into water=Trajectory

Option 3

The deer would swim out easily once the sun warmed the tar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 deer	det
2	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swim	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 swim	aux
4	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 swim	advmod
6	easily	easily	ADV	_	4 swim	advmod
7	once	once	SCONJ	_	10 warmed	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sun	det
9	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 warmed	nsubj
10	warmed	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swim	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tar	det
12	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 warmed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim out	would	the deer					easily, out property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	warm	past	the sun	the tar					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tar=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Hungry hunters would come and get stuck too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hunters	amod
2	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 get	cc
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	conj
7	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp
8	too	too	ADV	_	6 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	would	Hungry hunters						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	infinitive	Hungry hunters not said here					stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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