Test 10 · ★ · Butterflies, moths and ladybirds

What would most likely happen to a robin that spotted a peacock butterfly suddenly flashing its eye spots?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: robin, peacock butterfly · What happens: happen, spot, flash · To what, where: peacock butterfly, eye spots

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 219 «Butterflies, moths and ladybirds» 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	5 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADV	_	5 happen	advmod
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 robin	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 robin	det
8	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happen	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 spotted	nsubj
10	spotted	spot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 robin	acl:relcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 butterfly	det
12	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 butterfly	compound
13	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spotted	obj
14	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	15 flashing	advmod
15	flashing	flash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 butterfly	acl
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 spots	nmod:poss
17	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 spots	compound
18	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 flashing	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				to a robin; likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spot	past	a robin		a peacock butterfly		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme butterfly=Destination
3	flash	gerund	a peacock butterfly not said here	butterfly's eye spots		suddenly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent spot=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 · ← Mova's choice

It would think it was another robin

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 think	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 think	aux
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 robin	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 robin	cop
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	7 robin	det
7	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 think	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	It						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	another robin					tree rules

Option 2

It would fall fast asleep on the spot

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 fall	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 fall	advmod
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fall	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 spot	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 spot	det
8	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	It			the spot		asleep, fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on spot=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It might get a fright and fly away

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 get	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fright	det
5	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fly	cc
7	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 get	conj
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	might	It	a fright					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fright=Stimulus
2	fly away	infinitive						away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It would bring all its friends to eat it

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 bring	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bring	aux
3	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 friends	det:predet
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 friends	nmod:poss
6	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bring	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 eat	mark
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bring	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	would	It		its friends				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument friend=Destination
2	eat	to-infinitive		it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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