Test 6 · Defences: poison, warning colours and mimics

What would happen if you fed a zoo poison frog only crickets for its whole life?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, poison frog · What happens: happen, feed, cricket

This is test 6 of lesson 247 «Defences: poison, warning colours and mimics» 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	_	6 fed	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 fed	nsubj
6	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 frog	det
8	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 poison	compound
9	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 frog	compound
10	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crickets	nsubj
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 crickets	advmod
12	crickets	cricket	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	parataxis
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 life	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 life	nmod:poss
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 life	amod
16	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crickets	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feed a condition, not said to happen	past	you		vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	cricket	present	a poison frog	for frog's whole life	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 stop eating

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 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	It						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would not become poisonous

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 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 become	advmod
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not become	would	It					poisonous property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It would become twice as poisonous

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 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 poisonous	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 poisonous	advmod
6	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	It					poisonous property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It would turn green

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 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It					green property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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