Test 4 · ★ · The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and c…

If a deer could see colours like we do, what would happen to the tiger?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: deer, we, colours · What happens: see, do, happen

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 19 «The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and cunning hunter» 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 see	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 deer	det
3	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 happen	advcl
6	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 happen	nsubj
7	like	like	SCONJ	_	9 do	mark
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 happen	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 happen	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 happen	aux
13	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 tiger	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tiger	det
16	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 happen	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	see a condition, not said to happen	could	a deer		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	do	present	we		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	happen	would	colours	to the tiger	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

The deer would stop eating grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 deer	det
2	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	the deer						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund	the deer not said here	grass					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The tiger would turn green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tiger	det
2	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the tiger					green property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nothing, the tiger would still look green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 look	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tiger	det
4	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 look	aux
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 look	advmod
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	would	Nothing				still	green property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It would spot the orange tiger more easily

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 spot	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 spot	aux
3	spot	spot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tiger	det
5	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tiger	amod
6	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spot	obj
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 easily	advmod
8	easily	easily	ADV	_	3 spot	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spot	would	It		the orange tiger			easily property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tiger=Destination

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