Test 5 · ★ · Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs

«gonna hatch a chick from a supermarket egg in my airing cupboard» What will happen?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: hatch, happen · To what, where: chick, supermarket egg · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 212 «Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 hatch	punct
2	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	3 hatch	dep
3	hatch	hatch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 chick	det
5	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hatch	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 egg	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 egg	det
8	supermarket	supermarket	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 egg	compound
9	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hatch	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 cupboard	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cupboard	nmod:poss
12	airing	airing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cupboard	compound
13	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hatch	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 hatch	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 happen	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 happen	aux
17	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hatch	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hatch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch in a quote	imperative	you not said here	a chick		a supermarket egg		in my airing cupboard	tree rules
2	happen	future							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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

A chick will hatch in three weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 chick	det
2	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hatch	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hatch	aux
4	hatch	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 weeks	case
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 weeks	nummod
7	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hatch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch	future	a chick				week		vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It will hatch only if the egg is brown

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 hatch	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hatch	aux
3	hatch	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	9 brown	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 brown	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 egg	det
7	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brown	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 brown	cop
9	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hatch	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch	future	It						vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	the egg					brown property	tree rules

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

Nothing, shop eggs are not fertilised

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 eggs	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 shop	punct
3	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fertilised	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fertilised	aux:pass
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 fertilised	advmod
7	fertilised	fertilis	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fertilis	present · passive		Nothing eggs					tree rules

Option 4

A dinosaur will hatch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dinosaur	det
2	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hatch	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hatch	aux
4	hatch	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch	future	a dinosaur						vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent

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