Test 4 · ★ · Butterflies, moths and ladybirds

What would happen if a butterfly woke up on a cold, cloudy morning?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: butterfly · What happens: happen, wake up · To what, where: cold

This is test 4 · ★ 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	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 woke	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 butterfly	det
6	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 woke	nsubj
7	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 woke	compound:prt
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 cold	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cold	det
11	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 woke	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 morning	punct
13	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 morning	amod
14	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cold	conj
15	?	?	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	wake up a condition, not said to happen	past	a butterfly			a cold and cloudy morning			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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

It would have to warm up before it could fly

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 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 warm	mark
5	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	xcomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 warm	compound:prt
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 fly	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fly	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fly	aux
10	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 warm	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	have	would	It	tree rules
2	warm up	to-infinitive		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	fly	could	it	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It would go back to sleep until next summer comes

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 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 sleep	case
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 comes	mark
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 summer	amod
9	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 comes	nsubj
10	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 go	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	would	It					to sleep result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to sleep=Result
2	come	present	next summer						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It would turn back into a caterpillar

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 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 turn	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 caterpillar	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 caterpillar	det
7	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	would	It					into a caterpillar	vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It would fly faster and faster to keep warm

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 fly	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 fly	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 faster	cc
6	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 faster	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 keep	mark
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fly	advcl
9	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	would	It					fast property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	to-infinitive						warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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