Test 7 · ★ · Rats and mice in the city, and the elephant and mouse myth

What would happen to a pet rat that was given nothing hard to chew for months?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, give, chew · To what, where: pet rat

This is test 7 · ★ 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	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 rat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rat	det
6	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rat	compound
7	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 given	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 given	aux:pass
10	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 rat	acl
11	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 given	obj
12	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 nothing	amod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 chew	mark
14	chew	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hard	xcomp
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 months	case
16	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 chew	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would			to a pet rat	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give	past · passive	a pet rat			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient nothing=Theme
3	chew	to-infinitive		month		vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: 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

Its tail would grow longer instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 tail	nmod:poss
2	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	advmod
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	Its tail					instead, long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nothing, rats' teeth stop growing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stop	punct
3	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 teeth	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 rats	case
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stop	nsubj
6	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	conj
7	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	rats's teeth						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	grow	gerund	rats's teeth not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Its front teeth could grow too long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 teeth	nmod:poss
2	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 teeth	amod
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grow	aux
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	could	Its front teeth					long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Its teeth would fall out and grow back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 teeth	nmod:poss
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fall	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 fall	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 grow	cc
7	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fall	conj
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall out	would	Its teeth						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow back	infinitive	Its teeth not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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