Test 6 · ★★ · Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases…

What would happen if a museum's hide beetles escaped into the hall of stuffed animals?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, escape, stuff · To what, where: hide beetles, hall

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 306 «Beetles: the biggest group of animals on Earth, wing cases and six legs» 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	_	9 beetles	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 museum	det
6	museum	museum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hide	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 museum	case
8	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beetles	compound
9	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	conj
10	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 beetles	acl
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 hall	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hall	det
13	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 escaped	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 animals	case
15	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 animals	amod
16	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hall	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	escape	participle	hide beetles not said here	the hall of stuffed animals	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hall=Initial_Location
3	stuff	participle			vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent

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

They would clean all the glass cases until they shone

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 clean	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 clean	aux
3	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 cases	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cases	det
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cases	compound
7	cases	case	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 clean	obj
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 shone	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 shone	nsubj
10	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 clean	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	would	They	all glass cases					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent case=Patient
2	shine	past	cases = case						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nothing, they only eat bones in labs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 eat	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eat	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 eat	advmod
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 labs	case
8	labs	lab	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	they	Nothing		labs			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

Option 3

They would starve at once

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 starve	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 starve	aux
3	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 starve	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	would	They						tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They, or similar beetles, could eat the stuffed animals

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	5 beetles	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 beetles	punct
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 beetles	cc
4	similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 beetles	amod
5	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eat	punct
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 eat	aux
8	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 beetles	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 animals	det
10	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 animals	amod
11	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	could		the stuffed animals					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient
2	stuff	participle							vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent

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