Test 11 · ★ · Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth

What would most likely happen if a giant pouched rat walked over a buried landmine?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giant pouched rat · What happens: happen, walk, bury · To what, where: buried landmine

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 222 «Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth» 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	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 walked	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rat	det
8	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rat	amod
9	pouched	pouched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rat	amod
10	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 walked	nsubj
11	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	advcl
12	over	over	ADP	_	15 landmine	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 landmine	det
14	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 landmine	amod
15	landmine	landmine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 walked	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	happen	would			likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk a condition, not said to happen	past	a giant pouched rat	a buried landmine		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over landmine=Trajectory
3	bury	participle				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 dig the mine up and carry it 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 dig	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 dig	aux
3	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mine	det
5	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dig	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	3 dig	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 carry	cc
8	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dig	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 carry	obj
10	away	away	ADV	_	8 carry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig up	would	It	mine					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent my=Theme
2	carry away	infinitive		it				away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

It would try to gnaw through the landmine

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 try	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 try	aux
3	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 gnaw	mark
5	gnaw	gnaw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 try	xcomp
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 landmine	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 landmine	det
8	landmine	landmine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gnaw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	would	It						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	gnaw not said to happen	to-infinitive				the landmine			vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nothing, it is too light to set it off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 light	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 light	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 light	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 light	advmod
6	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 set	mark
8	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 light	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 set	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	8 set	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					light property	tree rules
2	set off	to-infinitive	Nothing not said here	it					vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Patient

Option 4

It would set it off and be blown up at once

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 set	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 set	aux
3	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	3 set	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 blown	cc
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 blown	aux:pass
8	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 set	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 blown	compound:prt
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 blown	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set off	would	It	it					vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Patient
2	blow up	infinitive · passive							vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»

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