Test 7 · ★ · Kindness to wild animals

What would happen if a child kept a frog in a jar on a sunny windowsill?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child · What happens: happen, keep · To what, where: frog, jar

This is test 7 · ★ 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	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	_	7 kept	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 child	det
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	nsubj
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 frog	det
9	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 jar	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 jar	det
12	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 windowsill	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 windowsill	det
15	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 windowsill	amod
16	windowsill	windowsill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	obl
17	?	?	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	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	a child	a frog		a jar		on a sunny windowsill	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent frog=Theme in jar=Location

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

Nothing, frogs like hot glass and lots of bright sunshine

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	_	3 frogs	punct
3	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nothing	conj
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 glass	case
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 glass	amod
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 frogs	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lots	cc
8	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nothing	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 sunshine	case
10	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sunshine	amod
11	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lots	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The frog would grow bigger and happier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 frog	det
2	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 happier	cc
7	happier	happy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 bigger	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	the frog					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The frog would turn into a toad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 frog	det
2	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 toad	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 toad	det
7	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the frog					into a toad result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into toad=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The frog would get too hot and dry and could die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 frog	det
2	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 hot	advmod
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dry	cc
8	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hot	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 die	cc
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 die	aux
11	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the frog					hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	die	could	the frog not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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