Test 4 · ★★ · Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?

What would happen if a farmer replaced her beehive fence with a fence of pet mice?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farmer · What happens: happen, replace · To what, where: beehive fence

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 149 «Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?» 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 replaced	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 farmer	det
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 replaced	nsubj
7	replaced	replace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 fence	nmod:poss
9	beehive	beehive	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fence	compound
10	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 replaced	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 fence	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fence	det
13	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 replaced	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 mice	case
15	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mice	compound
16	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fence	nmod
17	?	?	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	replace a condition, not said to happen	past	a farmer	farmer's beehive fence				with a fence of pet mice	vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme fence=Location with fence=Co-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

The elephants would bring honey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 elephants	det
2	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bring	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bring	aux
4	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	would	the elephants	honey					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent honey=Theme

Option 2

The mice would chase the elephants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mice	det
2	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chase	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 chase	aux
4	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 elephants	det
6	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chase	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	would	the mice	the elephants					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The elephants would run away screaming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 elephants	det
2	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 run	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 run	aux
4	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 run	advmod
6	screaming	scream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 run	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	would	the elephants					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	scream speech: express	gerund	the elephants not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The elephants would probably walk right in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 elephants	det
2	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 walk	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 walk	aux
4	probably	probably	ADV	_	5 walk	advmod
5	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	right	right	ADV	_	5 walk	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	5 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	would	the elephants					probably, right property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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