Test 8 · ★ · Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys

What would happen if a mantis lost its chest ear?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mantis · What happens: happen, lose · To what, where: chest ear

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 137 «Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys» 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 lost	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mantis	det
6	mantis	mantis	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	nsubj
7	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ear	nmod:poss
9	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ear	compound
10	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	obj
11	?	?	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	lose a condition, not said to happen	past	a mantis	mantis's chest ear					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Eventuality

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

It could not see its prey any more and would slowly starve to death

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	4 see	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 prey	nmod:poss
6	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj
7	any	any	ADV	_	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 see	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 starve	cc
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 starve	aux
11	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	12 starve	advmod
12	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 see	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 death	case
14	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 starve	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	could	It	its prey					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prey=Stimulus
2	starve	would						to death; slowly property	tree rules

Option 2

It could not walk anymore

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	4 walk	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 walk	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 walk	advmod
4	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anymore	anymore	ADV	_	4 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not walk	could	It					anymore property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It could not hear bats coming and would be easier to catch

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	4 hear	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hear	advmod
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hear	obj
6	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 bats	acl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 easier	cc
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 easier	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 easier	cop
10	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 hear	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 catch	mark
12	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 easier	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not hear	could	It	bats		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bat=Stimulus
2	come	gerund	bats not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	would			easy property	tree rules
4	catch	to-infinitive				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nothing at all would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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