Test 4 · ★★ · Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never sto…

What would happen if a rabbit ate only soft food and no hay for months?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rabbit · What happens: happen, eat · To what, where: soft food

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 200 «Rabbits: hay not carrots, binkies and teeth that never stop growing» 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	_	7 ate	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rabbit	det
6	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ate	nsubj
7	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 food	advmod
9	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 food	amod
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ate	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hay	cc
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 hay	det
13	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 food	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 months	case
15	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ate	obl
16	?	?	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	eat a condition, not said to happen	past	a rabbit	soft food and no hay			month		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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

Its teeth would fall out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 teeth	nmod:poss
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fall	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 fall	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall out	would	Its teeth						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing at all would change, because rabbits are fine on soft food only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fine	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 fine	mark
8	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fine	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fine	cop
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 change	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 food	case
12	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 food	amod
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fine	obl
14	only	only	ADV	_	13 food	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	rabbits			soft food		fine property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Its teeth could grow too long and cut its mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 teeth	nmod:poss
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 grow	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cut	cc
8	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 grow	conj
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mouth	nmod:poss
10	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	could	Its teeth					long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cut	infinitive	Its teeth not said here	its mouth					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mouth=Product

Option 4

Its ears would shrink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 ears	nmod:poss
2	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shrink	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 shrink	aux
4	shrink	shrink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shrink	would	Its ears						vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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