Test 5 · Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits

What would happen if a fennec fox had small ears like a red fox?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fennec fox · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: small ears

This is test 5 of lesson 141 «Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits» 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 had	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fox	det
6	fennec	fennec	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fox	compound
7	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ears	amod
10	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	obj
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 fox	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fox	det
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fox	amod
14	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ears	nmod
15	?	?	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	have a condition, not said to happen	past	a fennec fox	small ears				like a red fox	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient

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 at all would change for it, because ears do nothing to keep an animal cool

The tree, 16 words

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
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 change	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 do	mark
10	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 do	nsubj
11	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 change	parataxis
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 do	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 keep	mark
14	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 nothing	acl
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 animal	det
16	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 keep	obj
17	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing		for it	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	ears	nothing		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
3	keep	to-infinitive	ears not said here	a animal	cool property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It would struggle to lose heat and hear prey under the sand

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 struggle	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 struggle	aux
3	struggle	struggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 lose	mark
5	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 struggle	xcomp
6	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lose	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hear	cc
8	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 struggle	conj
9	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hear	obj
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 sand	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sand	det
12	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	struggle	would	It			tree rules
2	lose	to-infinitive		heat		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Eventuality
3	hear	present		prey	the sand	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer prey=Stimulus

Option 3

It would stay cooler in the sun

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 stay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	cooler	cool	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 stay	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	It			the sun		cool property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=Location

Option 4

It would hear better in the desert

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 hear	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 hear	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 desert	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 desert	det
7	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	would	It			the desert		well property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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