Test 7 · ★ · Raccoons, opossums and skunks

What would most likely happen if a dog chased a skunk that had already stamped and raised its tail?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: happen, chase, stamp, raise · To what, where: skunk, tail

This is test 7 · ★ 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	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	_	9 chased	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dog	det
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chased	nsubj
9	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 skunk	det
11	skunk	skunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chased	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 stamped	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stamped	aux
14	already	already	ADV	_	15 stamped	advmod
15	stamped	stamp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 skunk	acl:relcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 raised	cc
17	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 stamped	conj
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 tail	nmod:poss
19	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 raised	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would			likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	chase a condition, not said to happen	past	a dog	a skunk		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skunk=Theme
3	stamp	past · perfect · passive		a skunk		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
4	raise	participle		dog's tail		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

The dog would get sprayed with a terrible smell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sprayed	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sprayed	aux
4	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 sprayed	aux:pass
5	sprayed	spray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 smell	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 smell	det
8	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 smell	amod
9	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sprayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spray	would · passive		the dog				with a terrible smell	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with smell=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, skunks never spray dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 skunks	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	skunks	skunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spray	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 spray	advmod
5	spray	spray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spray	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not spray	present	Nothing skunks		dogs				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent dog=Destination

Option 3

The skunk would play dead at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 skunk	det
2	skunk	skunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 play	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 play	aux
4	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 play	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	would	the skunk					dead property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The skunk would climb a tree like a cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 skunk	det
2	skunk	skunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climb	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 climb	aux
4	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climb	obj
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 cat	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cat	det
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climb	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	would	the skunk	a tree				like a cat	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme

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