Test 5 · Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus,…

What would happen if an Allosaurus grabbed an Ankylosaurus from the side?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Allosaurus · What happens: happen, grab · To what, where: Ankylosaurus, side

This is test 5 of lesson 267 «Horns, frills, plates and clubs: Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus and the duck-bills» 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 grabbed	mark
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Allosaurus	det
6	Allosaurus	Allosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 grabbed	nsubj
7	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Ankylosaurus	det
9	Ankylosaurus	Ankylosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 grabbed	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 side	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 side	det
12	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grabbed	obl
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	grab a condition, not said to happen	past	a Allosaurus	a Ankylosaurus		the side			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent ankylosaurus=Theme from side=Source

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 easily bite through the armour

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 bite	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bite	aux
3	easily	easily	ADV	_	4 bite	advmod
4	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 armour	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 armour	det
7	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bite	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	would	It			the armour		easily property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent through armour=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It might get its leg broken by the tail club

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 get	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 leg	nmod:poss
5	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
6	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 get	xcomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 club	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 club	det
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 club	compound
10	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 broken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	might	It	its leg					tree rules
2	break	participle	its leg not said here					by the tail club	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by club=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The Ankylosaurus would turn into a ball and roll away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Ankylosaurus	det
2	Ankylosaurus	Ankylosaurus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 ball	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ball	det
7	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 roll	cc
9	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 turn	conj
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 roll	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the Ankylosaurus			a ball			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into ball=Trajectory
2	roll away	infinitive	the Ankylosaurus not said here					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The Ankylosaurus would fly away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	would	the Ankylosaurus					away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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