Test 4 · ★ · What a child can do for nature

What would happen if every garden on a street had a solid fence with no gaps?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: garden · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: solid fence

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 285 «What a child can do for nature» 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	_	10 had	mark
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 garden	det
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 street	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 street	det
9	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 garden	nmod
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fence	det
12	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fence	amod
13	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 gaps	case
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 gaps	det
16	gaps	gap	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fence	nmod
17	?	?	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	have a condition, not said to happen	past	every garden on a street	a solid fence				with no gaps	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fence=Patient

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

Hedgehogs would climb over every fence easily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 climb	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 climb	aux
3	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	over	over	ADV	_	3 climb	advmod
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 fence	det
6	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climb	obj
7	easily	easily	ADV	_	3 climb	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb over	would	Hedgehogs	every fence				easily, over property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location fence=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Hedgehogs would have more food each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	Hedgehogs	more food					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Hedgehogs would be trapped in one garden and could not find enough food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 trapped	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 trapped	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 trapped	aux:pass
4	trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 garden	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 garden	nummod
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trapped	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 find	cc
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 find	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 find	advmod
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trapped	conj
12	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 food	amod
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trap	would · passive		Hedgehogs		one garden			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in garden=Destination
2	not find	could		enough food					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic

Option 4

Nothing, hedgehogs never leave one garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 leave	parataxis
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 leave	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 leave	advmod
5	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 garden	nummod
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not leave	present	hedgehogs	one garden					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Theme

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