Test 7 · ★ · Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and anima…

What would happen to an animal that dies out before anyone finds it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animal, anyone · What happens: happen, die out, find · To what, where: animal

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 190 «Strange discoveries: living fossils, hidden apes and animals found in drawers» 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	_	6 animal	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 animal	det
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 dies	nsubj
8	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 animal	acl:relcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 dies	compound:prt
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 finds	mark
11	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 finds	nsubj
12	finds	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 finds	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would			to a animal	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	die out	present	a animal			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	find	present	anyone	animal		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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 be found anyway in a zoo

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 found	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 found	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 found	aux:pass
4	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 found	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 zoo	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 zoo	det
8	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would · passive		It		a zoo		anyway property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, because all the animals are already known

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 known	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 known	mark
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 animals	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 animals	det
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 known	nsubj:pass
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 known	aux:pass
8	already	already	ADV	_	9 known	advmod
9	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Nothing	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present · passive		all animals					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus

Option 3

It would come back to life

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 come	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 life	case
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	would	It			life			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Scientists would never even know it existed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 know	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 know	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 know	advmod
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 know	advmod
5	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 existed	nsubj
7	existed	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 know	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	would	Scientists						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	exist	past	it						vn exist-47.1 «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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