Test 8 · ★ · Chickens: eggs, pecking order and living dinosaurs

What would happen if a farmer forgot to shut the hen house at night where foxes live?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farmer, foxes · What happens: happen, forget, not shut, live · To what, where: hen house

This is test 8 · ★ 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	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 forgot	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 farmer	det
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forgot	nsubj
7	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 shut	mark
9	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 forgot	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
11	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 house	compound
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shut	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 night	case
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shut	obl
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 live	advmod
16	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 live	nsubj
17	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 night	acl:relcl
18	?	?	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	forget a condition, not said to happen	past	a farmer			tree rules
3	not shut	to-infinitive	a farmer not said here	the hen house	night	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent house=Patient
4	live	present	foxes			vn exist-47.1-1 «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

The hens would lay more eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hens	det
2	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lay	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	aux
4	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 eggs	amod
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	would	the hens	more eggs					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, foxes are scared of hens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 foxes	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scared	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	cop
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 hens	case
7	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing foxes					of hens; scared property	tree rules

Option 3

The hens would fly away safely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hens	det
2	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fly	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fly	aux
4	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 fly	advmod
6	safely	safely	ADV	_	4 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	would	the hens					away, safely property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A fox could get in and kill the hens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 kill	cc
7	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hens	det
9	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in	could	a fox						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	kill	infinitive	a fox not said here	the hens					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Theme

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