Test 8 · ★ · Budgies and canaries

What would happen if a budgie flew around a room with an uncovered big window?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: budgie · What happens: happen, fly, uncover · To what, where: room

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 205 «Budgies and canaries» 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 flew	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 budgie	det
6	budgie	budgie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flew	nsubj
7	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	around	around	ADP	_	10 room	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 room	det
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flew	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	15 window	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 window	det
13	uncovered	uncover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 window	amod
14	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 window	amod
15	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flew	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fly a condition, not said to happen	past	a budgie	a room	with a uncovered big window	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around room=Location
3	uncover	participle				tree rules

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 never fly near it

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 fly	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fly	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 fly	advmod
4	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	near	near	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fly	would	It			it			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near it=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would fly through the glass

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 fly	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 glass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 glass	det
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	would	It			the glass			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through glass=Location

Option 3

It would stop at the glass perfectly

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 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 glass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 glass	det
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stop	obl
7	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	3 stop	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	It			the glass		perfectly property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at glass=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It might fly into the glass and get hurt

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 fly	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 glass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 glass	det
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fly	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hurt	cc
8	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 hurt	aux:pass
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fly	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	might	It					into the glass result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into glass=Result
2	hurt	infinitive · passive							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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