Test 6 · ★★ · Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed anim…

What would happen if a farmer for 50 generations chose only the calmest junglefowl to breed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farmer · What happens: happen, choose, breed · To what, where: calmest junglefowl

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 293 «Horses, cattle, camels and chickens: how people tamed animals» 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 chose	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 farmer	det
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chose	nsubj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 generations	case
8	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 generations	nummod
9	generations	generation	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 farmer	nmod
10	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	only	only	ADV	_	14 junglefowl	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 junglefowl	det
13	calmest	calm	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 junglefowl	amod
14	junglefowl	junglefowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chose	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 breed	mark
16	breed	breed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 junglefowl	acl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	choose a condition, not said to happen	past	a farmer for 50 generations	the calmest junglefowl	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent junglefowl=Theme
3	breed	to-infinitive	a farmer for 50 generations not said here	the calmest junglefowl not said here	tree rules

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

Nothing would change at all, because birds never change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 change	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 change	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 change	mark
8	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 change	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 change	advmod
10	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 change	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing			all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not change	present	birds						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The birds would become tamer, like chickens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 birds	det
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	tamer	tamer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 chickens	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 chickens	case
8	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tamer	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	the birds	tamer and chickens					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

They would turn into ducks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur 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	_	5 ducks	case
5	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	obl

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

Option 4

They would slowly grow teeth and fur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 grow	advmod
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fur	cc
7	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 teeth	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	They	teeth and fur				slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tooth=Theme

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