Test 8 · ★ · Foxes and squirrels

What would happen if a squirrel could not gnaw anything hard for months?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: squirrel · What happens: happen, not gnaw · To what, where: anything

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 215 «Foxes and squirrels» 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	_	9 gnaw	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 squirrel	det
6	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gnaw	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 gnaw	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 gnaw	advmod
9	gnaw	gnaw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happen	advcl
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 gnaw	obj
11	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 anything	amod
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 months	case
13	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gnaw	obl
14	?	?	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	not gnaw a condition, not said to happen	could	a squirrel	anything			month		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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

Nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod

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

Option 2

Its tail would get longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 tail	nmod:poss
2	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp

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

Option 3

Its teeth would fall out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 teeth	nmod:poss
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fall	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 fall	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall out	would	Its teeth						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Its front teeth would grow too long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 teeth	nmod:poss
2	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 teeth	amod
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grow	aux
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 grow	advmod

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

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