Test 6 · ★ · Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant…

What would happen to a zoo flamingo fed only on plain bread?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, feed · To what, where: zoo flamingo

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 184 «Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal» 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 flamingo	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 flamingo	det
6	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flamingo	compound
7	flamingo	flamingo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 flamingo	acl
9	only	only	ADV	_	12 bread	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 bread	case
11	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bread	amod
12	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fed	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a zoo flamingo	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feed	participle		a zoo flamingo not said here				on plain bread	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on bread=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

It would get pinker and pinker each year

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 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	pinker	pinker	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 pinker	cc
6	pinker	pinker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pinker	conj
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 year	det
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	It	pinker and pinker			year		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pinker=Stimulus

Option 2

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 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would slowly lose its pink colour

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 lose	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lose	aux
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 lose	advmod
4	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 colour	nmod:poss
6	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 colour	amod
7	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	It	its pink colour				slowly property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Eventuality

Option 4

It would turn bright blue

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	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blue	amod
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It					blue property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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