Test 11 · ★ · Raccoons, opossums and skunks

What would happen to an opossum's babies if they could not fit in the pouch any more?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: babies · What happens: happen, not fit · To what, where: pouch

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 224 «Raccoons, opossums and skunks» 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	_	8 babies	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 opossum	det
6	opossum	opossum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 babies	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 opossum	case
8	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 fit	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fit	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 fit	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 fit	advmod
13	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happen	advcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 pouch	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pouch	det
16	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fit	obl
17	any	any	ADV	_	18 more	advmod
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 fit	advmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a opossum's babies	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not fit a condition, not said to happen	could	babies = baby			the pouch			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in pouch=Trajectory

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

They would be left behind at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 left	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 left	aux:pass
4	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	behind	behind	ADV	_	4 left	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave behind	would · passive		They				behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at once=Location

Option 2

They would grow a pouch of their own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pouch	det
5	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 own	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 own	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pouch	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	They	a pouch of their own					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pouch=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They would ride on their mother's back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ride	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 ride	aux
3	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	8 back	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 back	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 mother	case
8	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ride	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	would	They			their mother's back			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They would hang from her tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hang	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hang	aux
3	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 tail	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tail	nmod:poss
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	would	They			her tail			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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