Test 4 · ★★ · Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots

What would happen if a jay forgot where it hid its nuts?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: jay · What happens: happen, forget, hide · To what, where: nuts

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 233 «Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots» 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 forgot	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 jay	det
6	jay	jay	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forgot	nsubj
7	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 hid	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hid	nsubj
10	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 forgot	advcl
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 nuts	nmod:poss
12	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hid	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	forget a condition, not said to happen	past	a jay		tree rules
3	hide	past	jay	jay's nuts	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Some forgotten nuts would grow into trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 nuts	det
2	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 nuts	amod
3	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grow	aux
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 trees	case
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	participle							tree rules
2	grow	would	some forgotten nuts					into trees result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into tree=Result

Option 2

The other jays would bring the nuts back to it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 jays	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jays	amod
3	jays	jay	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bring	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bring	aux
5	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nuts	det
7	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bring	obj
8	back	back	ADV	_	5 bring	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring back	would	the other jays	the nuts		it			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nut=Theme to it=Destination

Option 3

The jay would never need food again that winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 jay	det
2	jay	jay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 need	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 need	advmod
5	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obj
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 need	advmod
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 winter	det
9	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	would	the jay	food			again; winter		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

Option 4

The nuts would roll back to the jay by themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nuts	det
2	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 roll	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 roll	aux
4	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 roll	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 jay	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 jay	det
8	jay	jay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 roll	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 themselves	case
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 roll	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll back	would	the nuts			the jay		by nuts = nut	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to jay=Source by themselves=Trajectory

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