Test 8 · Defences: skunks, porcupines, hedgehogs and armour

What would happen if a horned lizard squirted blood at a hawk?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: horned lizard · What happens: happen, squirt, blood

This is test 8 of lesson 248 «Defences: skunks, porcupines, hedgehogs and armour» 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 blood	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lizard	det
6	horned	horned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lizard	amod
7	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blood	nsubj
8	squirted	squirt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 blood	amod
9	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	advcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 hawk	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hawk	det
12	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would		at a hawk	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at hawk=Location
2	squirt	participle			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
3	blood a condition, not said to happen		a horned lizard		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

The hawk would be blinded for life by the blood in its eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hawk	det
2	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blinded	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 blinded	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 blinded	aux:pass
5	blinded	blind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 life	case
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blinded	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 blood	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 blood	det
10	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blinded	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 eyes	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 eyes	nmod:poss
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 blinded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blind	would · passive		the hawk		hawk's eyes		for life; by the blood	tree rules

Option 2

The hawk would fall asleep straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hawk	det
2	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fall	xcomp
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 fall	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	the hawk					asleep, away property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The hawk would turn blue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hawk	det
2	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turn	xcomp

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Not much, the blood tastes nasty to dogs but not to birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADV	_	6 tastes	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 much	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 blood	det
5	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tastes	nsubj
6	tastes	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dogs	case
8	to	to	ADP	_	7 nasty	fixed
9	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 tastes	obj
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 birds	cc
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 birds	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 birds	case
13	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dogs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	present	the blood	dogs but birds					vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme dog=Attribute

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