Test 9 · ★ · Worms, snails and slugs

What would happen if you gently touched a snail's long tentacles?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, touch · To what, where: long tentacles

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 217 «Worms, snails and slugs» 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 touched	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 touched	nsubj
6	gently	gently	ADV	_	7 touched	advmod
7	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 snail	det
9	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tentacles	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 snail	case
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tentacles	amod
12	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 touched	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	touch a condition, not said to happen	past	you	a snail's long tentacles				gently property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tentacle=Co-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

It would grow two more tentacles to protect itself

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 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 tentacles	nummod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 tentacles	amod
6	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 protect	mark
8	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grow	advcl
9	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 protect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It	two more tentacles					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tentacle=Theme
2	protect	to-infinitive		itself = it					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would pull them in, because its eyes are at the tips

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 pull	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pull	aux
3	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pull	obj
5	in	in	ADV	_	3 pull	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tips	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 tips	mark
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 eyes	nmod:poss
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tips	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 tips	cop
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 tips	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tips	det
13	tips	tip	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pull	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	would	It	them = they					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	is	present	its eyes			the tips			tree rules

Option 3

It would bite your finger hard

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 bite	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bite	aux
3	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 finger	nmod:poss
5	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bite	obj
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bite	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	would	It	your finger				hard property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient

Option 4

It would leave its shell behind and run away to hide

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 leave	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 leave	aux
3	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 shell	nmod:poss
5	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leave	obj
6	behind	behind	ADV	_	3 leave	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 run	cc
8	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 leave	conj
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 run	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 hide	mark
11	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 run	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	would	It	its shell	behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Theme
2	run away	infinitive			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hide	to-infinitive				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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