Test 5 · ★★ · Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunt…

What would happen if a lone wolf tried to chase a healthy, fast elk?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lone wolf · What happens: happen, try, chase · To what, where: healthy fast elk

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 240 «Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together» 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	_	8 tried	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wolf	det
6	lone	lone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wolf	amod
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tried	nsubj
8	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 chase	mark
10	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tried	xcomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 elk	det
12	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 elk	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 healthy	punct
14	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 elk	amod
15	elk	elk	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 chase	obj
16	?	?	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	try a condition, not said to happen	past	a lone wolf		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	chase not said to happen	to-infinitive	a lone wolf not said here	a healthy fast elk	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elk=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

It would always catch it

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	4 catch	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 catch	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 catch	advmod
4	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	would	It	it				always property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It would probably fail, as most hunts do

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	4 fail	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fail	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 fail	advmod
4	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fail	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 do	mark
7	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 hunts	amod
8	hunts	hunt	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 do	nsubj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fail	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail	would	It					probably property	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	most hunts						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The elk would give up at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 elk	det
2	elk	elk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 give	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 give	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 give	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	would	the elk						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The elk would chase the wolf all the way home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 elk	det
2	elk	elk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chase	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 chase	aux
4	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wolf	det
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chase	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 way	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chase	obl:unmarked
10	home	home	ADV	_	4 chase	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	would	the elk	the wolf				all way obl:unmarked; home property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/240-wolves-and-teamwork-family-packs-the-alpha-myth-and-hunting-together/t5/