Test 6 · Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese,…

What would happen to a lowland goose that tried to fly as high as a bar-headed goose?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowland goose · What happens: happen, try, fly, head

This is test 6 of lesson 183 «Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders» 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	_	7 goose	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 goose	det
6	lowland	lowland	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 goose	amod
7	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 tried	nsubj
9	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 goose	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 fly	mark
11	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tried	xcomp
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 high	advmod
13	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fly	advcl
14	as	as	ADP	_	19 goose	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 goose	det
16	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 headed	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 bar	punct
18	headed	head	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 goose	amod
19	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 high	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would		to a lowland goose	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try	past	a lowland goose		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	fly not said to happen	to-infinitive	a lowland goose not said here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	head	participle			vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

It would struggle to get enough oxygen from the thin air

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 struggle	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 struggle	aux
3	struggle	struggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 get	mark
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 struggle	xcomp
6	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 oxygen	amod
7	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 air	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 air	det
10	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 air	amod
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	struggle	would	It						tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive		enough oxygen		the thin air			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme from air=Source

Option 2

It would turn into a bar-headed goose, which can fly very high

The tree, 13 words

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 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	9 goose	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 goose	det
6	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 headed	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 bar	punct
8	headed	head	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 goose	amod
9	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fly	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 fly	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 fly	aux
13	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 turn	conj
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 high	advmod
15	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fly	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It	into a headed goose result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into goose=Result
2	head	participle			vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	fly	can			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It would be warmer up there

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	4 warmer	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 warmer	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 warmer	cop
4	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	6 there	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 warmer	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It			there		warm property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It would fly even faster

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 fly	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 faster	advmod
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	would	It					fast property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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