Test 5 · Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, m…

What would happen if the goby left the shrimp's burrow?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: goby · What happens: happen, leave · To what, where: burrow

This is test 5 of lesson 173 «Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers» 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 left	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 goby	det
6	goby	goby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	nsubj
7	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shrimp	det
9	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 burrow	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 shrimp	case
11	burrow	burrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obj
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	leave a condition, not said to happen	past	the goby	the shrimp's burrow					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burrow=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

Nothing, because the shrimp has perfect eyes and sees danger first itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 has	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 has	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shrimp	det
5	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eyes	amod
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 has	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sees	cc
10	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 has	conj
11	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sees	obj
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 sees	advmod
13	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 sees	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Nothing	perfect eyes					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	see	present	Nothing not said here	danger				first property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The nearly blind shrimp would have no guard to warn it of danger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shrimp	det
2	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	3 blind	advmod
3	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shrimp	amod
4	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 guard	det
8	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 warn	mark
10	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 have	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 warn	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 danger	case
13	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 warn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	the blind shrimp	no guard					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Patient
2	warn speech: warn	to-infinitive	the blind shrimp not said here		guard			of danger	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Recipient of danger=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The shrimp would dig faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shrimp	det
2	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dig	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dig	aux
4	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 dig	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	would	the shrimp					fast property	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The shrimp would see better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shrimp	det
2	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 see	advmod

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

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