Test 6 · ★ · Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa

What would happen to the aye-aye if Madagascar suddenly had lots of woodpeckers?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Madagascar · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: lots

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 163 «Madagascar: lemurs of every kind and the fossa» 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	to	to	ADP	_	8 aye	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 aye	det
6	aye	aye	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 aye	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 aye	punct
8	aye	aye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
10	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 had	nsubj
11	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	12 had	advmod
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
13	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 woodpeckers	case
15	woodpeckers	woodpecker	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lots	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to the aye aye	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	Madagascar	lots of woodpeckers				suddenly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=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

Nothing at all could change

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	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	could	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would learn to fly

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 learn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 learn	aux
3	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fly	mark
5	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 learn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	It						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fly	to-infinitive							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It would start eating the woodpeckers' eggs instead of grubs

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 start	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 start	aux
3	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 start	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woodpeckers	det
6	woodpeckers	woodpecker	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eggs	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 woodpeckers	case
8	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eating	obj
9	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	11 grubs	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 instead	fixed
11	grubs	grub	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	It						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund		the woodpeckers's eggs				instead grubs	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It would have to share its grubs with them

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 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 share	mark
5	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 grubs	nmod:poss
7	grubs	grub	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 share	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 share	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	It						tree rules
2	share	to-infinitive		its grubs				with grubs = grub	tree rules

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