Test 6 · Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs a…

What would happen if a plesiosaur had to crawl up a beach to lay eggs, like a turtle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: plesiosaur · What happens: happen, have, crawl up, lay · To what, where: beach, eggs

This is test 6 of lesson 270 «Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning» 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 had	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plesiosaur	det
6	plesiosaur	plesiosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 crawl	mark
9	crawl	crawl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	xcomp
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 crawl	compound:prt
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 beach	det
12	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crawl	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 lay	mark
14	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 crawl	advcl
15	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lay	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 turtle	punct
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 turtle	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 turtle	det
19	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lay	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	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 plesiosaur			tree rules
3	crawl up	to-infinitive	a plesiosaur not said here	a beach		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location beach=Theme
4	lay	to-infinitive	a plesiosaur not said here	eggs	like a turtle	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

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 right answer

It would be clumsy on land, but it did not need to: it gave birth in the sea

The tree, 18 words

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 clumsy	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 clumsy	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 clumsy	cop
4	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 land	case
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clumsy	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 need	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 need	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 need	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 need	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 need	advmod
12	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 clumsy	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	12 need	xcomp
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 gave	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gave	nsubj
16	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 clumsy	conj
17	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 sea	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sea	det
20	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	would	It		land	clumsy property	tree rules
2	not need	past · do-support	land				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	give	past	land	birth	the sea		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme

Option 2

It would lay eggs as big as a house

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 lay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	aux
3	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lay	obj
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 big	advmod
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lay	xcomp
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 big	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	would	It	eggs				big property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

Option 3

It would fly back to the sea

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly back	would	It					to the sea result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sea=Result

Option 4

It would turn into a dinosaur

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	into	into	ADP	_	6 dinosaur	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dinosaur	det
6	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It					into a dinosaur result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into dinosaur=Result

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