Test 7 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest

What would happen to a bumblebee bat on a cold night without food?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 186 «Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest» 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 bat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bat	det
6	bumblebee	bumblebee	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bat	compound
7	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 night	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 night	det
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 night	amod
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
12	without	without	ADP	_	13 food	case
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					night	to a bumblebee bat; without food	vn occur-48.3-1 «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

It would grow bigger and stronger

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 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stronger	cc
6	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 bigger	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nothing, tiny bodies keep their heat best of all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 bodies	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bodies	amod
4	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heat	nmod:poss
7	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obj
8	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 keep	advmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 best	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Nothing tiny bodies	bodies's heat				well property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme
2	heat		bodies = body						nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It would lose heat fast and be in danger

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 lose	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 lose	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 danger	cc
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 danger	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 danger	case
9	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	It	heat				fast property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Eventuality
2	is	infinitive				danger			tree rules

Option 4

It would sweat

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 sweat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sweat	aux
3	sweat	sweat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sweat	would	It						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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