Test 7 · ★ · Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders

What would happen if a nest box had a very big hole?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nest box · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: big hole

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 216 «Garden birds: robins, blackbirds, tits and feeders» 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	_	8 had	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 box	det
6	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 box	compound
7	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hole	det
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 big	advmod
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hole	amod
12	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
13	?	?	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	a nest box	a big hole					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=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 chicks would hatch faster in the fresh air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chicks	det
2	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hatch	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hatch	aux
4	hatch	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 hatch	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 air	det
8	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 air	amod
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hatch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch	would	the chicks			the fresh air		fast property	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Bigger birds could get in and take the eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 birds	amod
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	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 take	cc
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eggs	det
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in	could	Bigger birds						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	take	infinitive	Bigger birds not said here	the eggs					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme

Option 3

No bird could ever get in or out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 get	advmod
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 out	cc
8	out	out	ADV	_	6 in	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	could	no bird				ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

It would keep the box drier

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 keep	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 drier	det
5	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drier	compound
6	drier	drier	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	It	the box drier					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drier=Theme

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