Test 5 · ★★ · The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finc…

What would happen to the tortoises if goats came back to an island?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: goats · What happens: happen, come back

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 180 «The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions» 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	_	6 tortoises	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tortoises	det
6	tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 came	mark
8	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 island	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 island	det
13	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 back	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to the tortoises	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come back a condition, not said to happen	past	goats						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The goats would eat their plants and the tortoises would go hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 goats	det
2	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 plants	nmod:poss
6	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 go	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tortoises	det
9	tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 go	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 eat	conj
12	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would	the goats	goats's plants					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient
2	go	would	the tortoises					hungry property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The tortoises would ride the goats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tortoises	det
2	tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ride	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 ride	aux
4	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 goats	det
6	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ride	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	would	the tortoises	the goats					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Theme

Option 3

Nothing 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	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The tortoises would eat the goats and grow much bigger and stronger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tortoises	det
2	tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 goats	det
6	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 grow	cc
8	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	conj
9	much	much	ADV	_	10 bigger	advmod
10	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 grow	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stronger	cc
12	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 bigger	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would	the tortoises	the goats					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Patient
2	grow	present	the tortoises not said here					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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