Test 7 · ★ · The vet

What would happen if a horse's sharp tooth edges were never filed?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, not file · To what, where: sharp tooth edges

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 227 «The vet» 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	_	13 filed	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 edges	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 horse	case
8	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 edges	amod
9	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 edges	compound
10	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 filed	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 filed	aux:pass
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 filed	advmod
13	filed	file	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
14	?	?	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	not file a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		a horse's sharp tooth edges					vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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, horses have no teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 have	obj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 teeth	det
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	horses	Nothing					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Eating could become painful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 become	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	painful	painful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	become	could						painful property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It would eat faster than ever

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 eat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 eat	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 ever	case
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would	It					fast property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Its teeth would stop growing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 teeth	nmod:poss
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	Its teeth						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	grow	gerund	Its teeth not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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