Test 5 · ★★ · How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces

What would happen if you threw a red ball and a yellow ball onto a green lawn for your dog?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, throw · To what, where: red ball, green lawn

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 193 «How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces» 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	_	6 threw	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 threw	nsubj
6	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ball	det
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ball	amod
9	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 threw	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ball	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ball	det
12	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ball	amod
13	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ball	conj
14	onto	onto	ADP	_	17 lawn	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lawn	det
16	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lawn	amod
17	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 threw	obl
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 dog	case
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 dog	nmod:poss
20	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lawn	nmod
21	?	?	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	throw a condition, not said to happen	past	you	a red ball and a yellow ball		a green lawn for your dog			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ball=Theme onto lawn=Destination

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 see the red one first, because red is the brightest colour

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 see	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 see	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 colour	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	14 colour	mark
10	red	red	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 colour	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 colour	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 colour	det
13	brightest	bright	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 colour	amod
14	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	would	It	the red one				first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
2	is a	present	red	the brightest colour					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It would probably spot the yellow ball 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	4 spot	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 spot	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 spot	advmod
4	spot	spot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ball	det
6	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ball	amod
7	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spot	obj
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 easily	advmod
9	easily	easily	ADV	_	4 spot	advmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It would see neither ball at all

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 see	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	5 ball	det
5	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	would	It	neither ball		all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ball=Stimulus

Option 4

It would see both balls equally well

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 see	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 balls	det
5	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 see	obj
6	equally	equally	ADV	_	3 see	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 equally	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	would	It	both balls				equally property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ball=Stimulus

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