Test 10 · ★★★ · Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and T…

What would happen to a ship's food store long ago with no cat and no traps?

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

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 294 «Cats through history: Egypt's sacred cats, ship cats and Tom and Jerry» 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 store	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ship	det
6	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 store	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 ship	case
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 store	compound
9	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 ago	advmod
11	ago	ago	ADV	_	3 happen	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 cat	case
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 cat	det
14	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 traps	cc
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 traps	det
17	traps	trap	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cat	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a ship's food store; with no cat and no traps; ago property	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 food 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 food	det
2	food	food	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 food					long property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Rats would leave the ship at once and swim off to land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 leave	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 leave	aux
3	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ship	det
5	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leave	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 leave	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 swim	cc
9	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 leave	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 swim	compound:prt
11	to	to	PART	_	12 land	mark
12	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 swim	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	leave	would	Rats	the ship	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ship=Theme at once=Location
2	swim off	present	Rats not said here		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	land	to-infinitive	Rats not said here		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nothing, ships had no rats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 had	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 rats	det
6	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Nothing	no rats					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Rats would eat the food and ropes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 food	det
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ropes	cc
7	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 food	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would	Rats	the food and ropes					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

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