Test 6 · Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyr…

What would happen if wombat droppings were round instead of cubes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: wombat droppings · What happens: happen, be

This is test 6 of lesson 167 «Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings» 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	_	8 round	mark
5	wombat	wombat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 droppings	compound
6	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 round	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 round	cop
8	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 happen	advcl
9	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	11 cubes	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 instead	fixed
11	cubes	cube	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 round	obl
12	?	?	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	is a condition, not said to happen	past	wombat droppings					instead cubes; round property	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

They could roll off the rocks and logs where the wombat marks its area

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 roll	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 roll	aux
3	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 roll	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rocks	det
6	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 marks	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 logs	cc
8	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rocks	conj
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 marks	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wombat	det
11	wombat	wombat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 marks	nsubj
12	marks	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 roll	parataxis
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 area	nmod:poss
14	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 marks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll off	could	They						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	mark	present	the rocks and logs	wombat's area					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent area=Destination

Option 2

They would grow into trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur 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	into	into	ADP	_	5 trees	case
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	They					into trees result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into tree=Result

Option 3

They would turn into stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 stones	case
5	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	They			stones			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into stone=Trajectory

Option 4

Nothing, because wombats never leave droppings anywhere at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 leave	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 leave	mark
4	wombats	wombat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 leave	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 leave	advmod
6	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	parataxis
7	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 leave	obj
8	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 leave	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 anywhere	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not leave	present	wombats	droppings				anywhere property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dropping=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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