Test 3 · ★★★ · Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants

What would happen to a big-bodied elephant stuck on a small island with little food and no hunters?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, body, stick · To what, where: bodied elephant, small island

This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 274 «Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants» 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	_	9 elephant	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 elephant	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bodied	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 big	punct
8	bodied	body	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 elephant	amod
9	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
10	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 elephant	acl
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 island	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 island	det
13	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 island	amod
14	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stuck	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 food	case
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 food	amod
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 island	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hunters	cc
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 hunters	det
20	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 elephant	conj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	would			to a bodied elephant and no hunters	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	body	participle				tree rules
3	stick	participle	a bodied elephant and no hunters not said here	a small island with little food		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on island=Destination

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 turn into a Komodo dragon

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	_	7 dragon	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dragon	det
6	Komodo	Komodo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dragon	compound
7	dragon	dragon	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 Komodo dragon result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into dragon=Result

Option 2

It would grow wings and fly home

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 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fly	cc
6	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grow	conj
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It	wings					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
2	fly	infinitive						home property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Its kind would get bigger and bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 kind	nmod:poss
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bigger	cc
7	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 bigger	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Its kind					big property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Over many generations its kind would tend to get smaller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Over	over	ADP	_	3 generations	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 generations	amod
3	generations	generation	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 kind	nmod:poss
5	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tend	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 tend	aux
7	tend	tend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 generations	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tend	xcomp
10	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tend	would	its kind	many generations not said here					tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive	its kind not said here					small property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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