Test 4 · ★ · Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water

What would happen if a gull chick could not see any red spot on its parent's beak?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: gull chick · What happens: happen, not see · To what, where: red spot, beak

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 223 «Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water» 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	_	10 see	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chick	det
6	gull	gull	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chick	compound
7	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 see	advmod
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happen	advcl
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 spot	det
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 spot	amod
13	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	18 beak	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 parent	nmod:poss
16	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 beak	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 parent	case
18	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spot	nmod
19	?	?	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	not see a condition, not said to happen	could	a gull chick	any red spot		chick's parent's beak			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spot=Stimulus

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 slowly turn red itself to make up for 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	4 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turn	xcomp
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 turn	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 make	mark
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 turn	advcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 make	compound:prt
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It	itself = it				red, slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme itself=Result
2	make up	to-infinitive						for it	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

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

It would not know where to peck to ask for food

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	4 know	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 peck	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 peck	mark
7	peck	peck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 ask	mark
9	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 peck	xcomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 food	case
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not know	would	It		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	peck	to-infinitive			tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive		for food	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It would fly off to the sea

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	off	off	ADP	_	3 fly	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	would	It					to the sea result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sea=Result

Option 4

It would find food by itself 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 find	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 itself	case
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 find	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	It	food				by food	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent food=Theme at once=Asset

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