Test 7 · ★ · Masters of camouflage

What would happen to a pale moth on a soot-blackened tree?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, blacken · To what, where: blackened tree

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 189 «Masters of camouflage» 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 moth	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 moth	det
6	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 moth	amod
7	moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	13 tree	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tree	det
10	soot	soot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 blackened	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 soot	punct
12	blackened	blacken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 tree	amod
13	tree	tree	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				a blackened tree		to a pale moth	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on tree=Location
2	blacken	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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

Birds would ignore it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ignore	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 ignore	aux
3	ignore	ignore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ignore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	would	Birds	it					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

It would become invisible

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 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	It					invisible property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It would turn black at once to match the bark

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	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turn	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 turn	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 match	mark
8	match	match	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 turn	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bark	det
10	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 match	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It					black property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory
2	match	to-infinitive		the bark					vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Birds would spot it more easily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spot	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 spot	aux
3	spot	spot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spot	obj
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 easily	advmod
6	easily	easily	ADV	_	3 spot	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spot	would	Birds	it				easily property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination

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