Test 5 · ★ · Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey

What would happen if a shrew went a whole day without eating?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: shrew · What happens: happen, go, eat

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 142 «Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey» 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 went	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shrew	det
6	shrew	shrew	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 day	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl:unmarked
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	12 eating	mark
12	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 went	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go a condition, not said to happen	past	a shrew	day	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	eat	gerund	a shrew not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 would hibernate till spring

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 hibernate	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hibernate	aux
3	hibernate	hibernate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	till	till	ADP	_	5 spring	case
5	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hibernate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hibernate	would	It				spring		vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location

Option 2

It would grow bigger and slower, saving up fat from the food it had already eaten

The tree, 16 words

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	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 slower	cc
6	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 bigger	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saving	punct
8	saving	save	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 grow	advcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 saving	compound:prt
10	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saving	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 food	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 food	det
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saving	obl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 eaten	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 eaten	aux
16	already	already	ADV	_	17 eaten	advmod
17	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 food	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It			big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	save up	gerund		fat	the food		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fat=Theme from food=Source
3	eat	past · perfect · passive	the food not said here	fat			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

It would be fine for a few weeks

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 fine	expl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 fine	cop
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 weeks	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 weeks	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 weeks	amod
8	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fine	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would					week	fine property	tree rules

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

It could die, because its tiny body burns food so fast

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 die	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 die	aux
3	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 burns	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 burns	mark
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 body	nmod:poss
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 body	amod
8	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burns	nsubj
9	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 die	advcl
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burns	obj
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 fast	advmod
12	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 burns	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	could	It						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	burn	present	its tiny body	food				fast property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent food=Theme

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