Test 8 · ★★ · Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them

What would happen if every garden on a street had a solid fence with no gaps?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: garden · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: solid fence

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 214 «Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them» 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	_	10 had	mark
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 garden	det
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 street	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 street	det
9	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 garden	nmod
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fence	det
12	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fence	amod
13	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 gaps	case
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 gaps	det
16	gaps	gap	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fence	nmod
17	?	?	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	have a condition, not said to happen	past	every garden on a street	a solid fence				with no gaps	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fence=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Hedgehogs could not travel between gardens to find food and mates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 travel	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 travel	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 travel	advmod
4	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	between	between	ADP	_	6 gardens	case
6	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 travel	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 find	mark
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 travel	advcl
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mates	cc
11	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 food	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not travel	could	Hedgehogs			gardens			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between garden=Trajectory
2	find	to-infinitive	Hedgehogs not said here	food and mates					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic

Option 2

Nothing, hedgehogs stay in one garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 hedgehogs	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stay	nsubj
4	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 garden	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 garden	nummod
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	Nothing hedgehogs			one garden			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location

Option 3

Hedgehogs would get bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Hedgehogs					big property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Hedgehogs would learn to climb fences

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 learn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 learn	aux
3	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 climb	mark
5	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 learn	xcomp
6	fences	fence	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 climb	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	Hedgehogs						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	climb	to-infinitive	Hedgehogs not said here	fences					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location fence=Theme

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