Test 10 · ★★ · From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread

What would happen to a barn of grain with no cats and no traps?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 286 «From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread» 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	_	6 barn	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 barn	det
6	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 grain	case
8	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 barn	nmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 cats	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 cats	det
11	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 traps	cc
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 traps	det
14	traps	trap	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cats	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a barn of grain; with no cats and no traps	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 grain would sprout and grow into tall wheat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 grain	det
2	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sprout	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sprout	aux
4	sprout	sprout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 grow	cc
6	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sprout	conj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 wheat	case
8	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wheat	amod
9	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sprout	would	the grain						vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
2	grow	infinitive	the grain not said here					into tall wheat result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into wheat=Result

Option 2

The grain would last longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 grain	det
2	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 last	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 last	aux
4	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 last	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	would	the grain					long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Birds would guard it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 guard	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 guard	aux
3	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 guard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	would	Birds	it					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Mice and rats would eat and spoil much of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 rats	cc
3	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mice	conj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 spoil	cc
7	spoil	spoil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 eat	conj
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spoil	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 much	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would	Mice and rats						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spoil	infinitive	Mice and rats not said here	much of it					tree rules

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