Test 5 · More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles, apes' bed…

What would happen to a hummingbird nest if it were glued with hard mud instead of spider silk?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, glue · To what, where: nest

This is test 5 of lesson 245 «More builders: caddis cases, paper wasps, moles, apes' beds and sand circles» 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	to	to	ADP	_	7 nest	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 nest	det
6	hummingbird	hummingbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nest	compound
7	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 glued	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 glued	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 glued	aux:pass
11	glued	glue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 mud	case
13	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mud	amod
14	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 glued	obl
15	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	18 silk	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	15 instead	fixed
17	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 silk	compound
18	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 glued	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a hummingbird nest	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	glue a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		nest				with hard mud; instead spider silk	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with mud=Instrument

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 eggs would hatch faster than usual

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eggs	det
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hatch	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hatch	aux
4	hatch	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 hatch	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 usual	case
7	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hatch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch	would	the eggs					than usual; fast property	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient

Option 2

It would float away

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 float	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 float	aux
3	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 float	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float away	would	It					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It could not stretch as the chicks grew

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 stretch	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stretch	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 stretch	advmod
4	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 grew	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chicks	det
7	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grew	nsubj
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stretch	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stretch	could	It						vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	grow	past	the chicks						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nothing would change at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing			all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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