Test 5 · Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges

What would happen if a farmer knocked a small hole in a beaver dam?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farmer · What happens: happen, knock · To what, where: small hole, beaver dam

This is test 5 of lesson 242 «Animal builders: beavers, dams and lodges» 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 knocked	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 farmer	det
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knocked	nsubj
7	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hole	det
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hole	amod
10	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knocked	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 dam	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 dam	det
13	beaver	beaver	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dam	compound
14	dam	dam	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hole	nmod
15	?	?	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	knock a condition, not said to happen	past	a farmer	a small hole		a beaver dam			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent hole=Theme in dam=Destination

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

The beavers would leave and never come back to that pond again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 beavers	det
2	beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 leave	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 leave	aux
4	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 come	cc
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 come	advmod
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 leave	conj
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 pond	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 pond	det
11	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl
12	again	again	ADV	_	7 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	would	the beavers						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not come back	infinitive	the beavers not said here			that pond	again		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pond=Initial_Location

Option 2

The pond would freeze straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pond	det
2	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 freeze	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 freeze	aux
4	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 away	advmod
6	away	away	ADV	_	4 freeze	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	would	the pond					away property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The beavers would hear the leak and soon fix it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 beavers	det
2	beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hear	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 leak	det
6	leak	leak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hear	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fix	cc
8	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 fix	advmod
9	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hear	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fix	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	would	the beavers	the leak					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer leak=Stimulus
2	fix	infinitive	the beavers not said here	leak				soon property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, beavers never fix their dams

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 fix	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	beavers	beaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fix	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 fix	advmod
5	fix	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dams	nmod:poss
7	dams	dam	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fix	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fix	present	beavers	beavers's dams					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent dam=Patient

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