Test 6 · ★ · Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice

What would happen if a child woke a hamster at noon every day to play?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: child · What happens: happen, wake, play · To what, where: hamster

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 202 «Hamsters, gerbils and pet rats and mice» 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 woke	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 woke	nsubj
7	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hamster	det
9	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 woke	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 noon	case
11	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 woke	obl
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 woke	obl:unmarked
14	to	to	PART	_	15 play	mark
15	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 day	acl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wake a condition, not said to happen	past	a child	a hamster	day; noon	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hamster=Patient
3	play	to-infinitive	a child not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 hamster would become a day animal at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hamster	det
2	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 animal	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 animal	compound
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 become	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	the hamster	a day animal					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Nothing, hamsters like noon best

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 best	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hamsters	punct
3	hamsters	hamster	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nothing	conj
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 noon	case
5	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hamsters	nmod
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

The hamster would be stressed and more likely to bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hamster	det
2	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stressed	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stressed	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 stressed	aux:pass
5	stressed	stress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 likely	cc
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 likely	advmod
8	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stressed	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 bite	mark
10	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 likely	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stress	would · passive		the hamster					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
2	bite	to-infinitive							vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The hamster would grow faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hamster	det
2	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	the hamster					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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