Test 7 · ★ · Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility

What would happen if a hamster's dirty bedding were left for a whole month?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, leave · To what, where: dirty bedding

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 225 «Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility» 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	_	11 left	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hamster	det
6	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bedding	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 hamster	case
8	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bedding	amod
9	bedding	bedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 left	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 left	aux:pass
11	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 month	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 month	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 month	amod
15	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 left	obl
16	?	?	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	leave a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		a hamster's dirty bedding			month		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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 · ← Mova's choice

The old bedding would slowly turn into good soil for the plants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bedding	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bedding	amod
3	bedding	bedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turn	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 turn	aux
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	6 turn	advmod
6	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 soil	case
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 soil	amod
9	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turn	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 plants	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 plants	det
12	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the old bedding			good soil		for the plants; slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into soil=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It would smell and the hamster could get ill

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 smell	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 smell	aux
3	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 get	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hamster	det
6	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 get	aux
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 smell	conj
9	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	would	It						vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	could	the hamster					ill property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Nothing, hamsters clean their own cages

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 hamsters	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	hamsters	hamster	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clean	nsubj
4	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cages	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cages	amod
7	cages	cage	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	present	Nothing hamsters	hamsters's own cages					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cage=Patient

Option 4

The hamster would make new bedding itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hamster	det
2	hamster	hamster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bedding	amod
6	bedding	bedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	the hamster	new bedding					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset bedding=Beneficiary itself=Product

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