Test 5 · Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower…

What would happen if a hornbill mum's tree hole had no mud wall?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tree hole · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: mud wall

This is test 5 of lesson 161 «Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes» 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	_	11 had	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mum	det
6	hornbill	hornbill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mum	compound
7	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hole	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 mum	case
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hole	compound
10	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 wall	det
13	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wall	compound
14	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
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 hornbill mum's tree hole	no mud wall					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=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, because the mud is only there as decoration

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 there	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 there	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mud	det
7	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 there	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 there	cop
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 there	advmod
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Nothing	parataxis
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 decoration	case
12	decoration	decoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 there	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the mud					as decoration; there property	tree rules

Option 2

She could not lay any eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lay	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 lay	advmod
4	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 eggs	det
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not lay	could	She	any eggs					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

Option 3

She would get too hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 hot	advmod
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Snakes and monkeys could reach her and her chick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 reach	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 monkeys	cc
3	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Snakes	conj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 reach	aux
5	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reach	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 chick	cc
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 chick	nmod:poss
9	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 her	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	could	Snakes and monkeys	her = she					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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