Test 5 · Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other ne…

What would happen if a bowerbird's bower had no blue things?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bower · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: blue things

This is test 5 of lesson 243 «Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other nest makers» 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	_	9 had	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bowerbird	det
6	bowerbird	bowerbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bower	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 bowerbird	case
8	bower	bower	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 things	det
11	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 things	amod
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	obj
13	?	?	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	have a condition, not said to happen	past	a bowerbird's bower	no blue things					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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

The bower would fall down in the first rain shower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bower	det
2	bower	bower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 fall	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 shower	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shower	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 shower	amod
9	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shower	compound
10	shower	shower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	would	the bower			the first rain shower		down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in shower=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Females would be less likely to choose him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 likely	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 likely	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 likely	cop
4	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 likely	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 choose	mark
7	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 likely	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 choose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Females					less, likely property	tree rules
2	choose	to-infinitive	Females not said here	him = he					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

He would be unable to fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 unable	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 unable	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 unable	cop
4	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fly	mark
6	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 unable	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	He					unable property	tree rules
2	fly	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

His eggs would not hatch in the nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eggs	nmod:poss
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hatch	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hatch	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hatch	advmod
5	hatch	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 nest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nest	det
8	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hatch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hatch	would	His eggs			the nest			vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient

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.

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