Test 4 · ★★ · Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver

What would happen if a hole in an octopus tank were bigger than its beak?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: hole · What happens: happen, be

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 234 «Animal minds: the octopus, escape artist and puzzle solver» 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	_	12 bigger	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hole	det
6	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bigger	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 tank	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tank	det
9	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tank	compound
10	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hole	nmod
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bigger	cop
12	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 happen	advcl
13	than	than	ADP	_	15 beak	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 beak	nmod:poss
15	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bigger	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	is a condition, not said to happen	past	a hole in a octopus tank					than hole's beak; big property	tree rules

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

It would get stuck by its bones

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 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 bones	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bones	nmod:poss
7	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	It					stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

It would be too scared to try

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	5 scared	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 scared	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 scared	advmod
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 try	mark
7	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 scared	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					scared property	tree rules
2	try	to-infinitive							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

It would fill the hole with ink

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 fill	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fill	aux
3	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hole	det
5	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fill	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 ink	case
7	ink	ink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	would	It	the hole				with ink	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hole=Patient with ink=Instrument

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The octopus could squeeze through and escape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 octopus	det
2	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 squeeze	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 squeeze	aux
4	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	through	through	ADV	_	4 squeeze	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 escape	cc
7	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 squeeze	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	could	the octopus					through property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	escape	infinitive	the octopus not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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