Test 6 · Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls

What would happen if an owl's neck bent only as far as yours?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: neck · What happens: happen, bend

This is test 6 of lesson 143 «Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls» 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	_	9 bent	mark
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 owl	det
6	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 neck	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 owl	case
8	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bent	nsubj
9	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 far	advmod
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 far	advmod
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 bent	advmod
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 yours	case
14	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 far	obl
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	bend a condition, not said to happen	past	a owl's neck					far property	vn assuming_position-50 «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 · ← Mova's choice

It would hear less well

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	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 hear	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 hear	advmod

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

Option 2

It would fly much faster, because big eyes make the head heavy in the air

The tree, 15 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 fly	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 faster	advmod
5	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 fly	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 make	mark
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eyes	amod
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 make	nsubj
10	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 head	det
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	obj
13	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 make	xcomp
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 air	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 air	det
16	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	would	It			the air			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location
2	make	present	big eyes	the head				heavy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset head=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It would see less around it, because its eyes cannot move

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 see	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 see	advmod
5	around	around	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 see	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 move	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 move	mark
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 eyes	nmod:poss
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 move	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 move	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 move	advmod
13	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 see	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	would	It			it		less property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not move	can	its eyes						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It would see much better

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 see	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 better	advmod
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 see	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	would	It					good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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