Test 6 · ★★ · Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and…

What would happen if a hungry leopard grabbed a porcupine?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: hungry leopard · What happens: happen, grab · To what, where: porcupine

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 191 «Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more» 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	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 grabbed	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 leopard	det
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 leopard	amod
7	leopard	leopard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grabbed	nsubj
8	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 porcupine	det
10	porcupine	porcupine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grabbed	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grab a condition, not said to happen	past	a hungry leopard	a porcupine					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porcupine=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 porcupine would shoot it from far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 porcupine	det
2	porcupine	porcupine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shoot	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 shoot	aux
4	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shoot	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 far	case
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 shoot	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 far	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	would	the porcupine	it				far property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

The leopard would turn into a porcupine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 leopard	det
2	leopard	leopard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 porcupine	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 porcupine	det
7	porcupine	porcupine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the leopard					into a porcupine result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into porcupine=Result

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

It could end up with quills stuck painfully in its face and paws

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 end	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 end	aux
3	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 end	compound:prt
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 quills	case
6	quills	quill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 end	obl
7	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 quills	acl
8	painfully	painfully	ADV	_	7 stuck	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 face	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 face	nmod:poss
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stuck	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 paws	cc
13	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 face	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	could	It					with quills	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	stick	participle		quills not said here		its face and paws		painfully property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in face=Destination

Option 4

Nothing, quills are soft as hair

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	_	5 soft	punct
3	quills	quill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 soft	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 soft	cop
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 hair	case
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soft	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	quills					as hair; soft property	tree rules

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