Test 5 · ★ · Kindness to wild animals

«the fishing line's tangled, just chuck it in the bushes» What could happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: tangle, chuck, happen · To what, where: line, bushes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 226 «Kindness to wild animals» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 tangled	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 line	det
3	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 line	compound
4	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tangled	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 line	case
6	tangled	tangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 chuck	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 chuck	advmod
9	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tangled	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 chuck	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 bushes	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bushes	det
13	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 chuck	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 tangled	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 happen	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 happen	aux
17	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tangled	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tangled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	tangle in a quote	participle			tree rules
2	chuck in a quote	infinitive	line	the bushes	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bush=Destination
3	happen	could			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 right answer

Birds like swans could get tangled and hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tangled	nsubj:pass
2	like	like	ADP	_	3 swans	case
3	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Birds	nmod
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tangled	aux
5	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 tangled	aux:pass
6	tangled	tangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hurt	cc
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 tangled	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tangle	could · passive		Birds like swans					tree rules
2	hurt	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

The fish would use it to make their nests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 use	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 use	aux
4	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 use	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 use	advcl
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 nests	nmod:poss
9	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	would	the fish	it					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	make	to-infinitive	the fish not said here	their nests					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product

Option 3

Nothing, because birds never touch fishing line

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 touch	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 touch	mark
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 touch	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 touch	advmod
6	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	parataxis
7	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 line	compound
8	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not touch	present	birds	fishing line					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme line=Co-Theme

Option 4

The line would grow into a new plant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 line	det
2	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 plant	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 plant	det
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plant	amod
8	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	the line					into a new plant result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into plant=Result

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