Test 3 · Turtles and tortoises

What would happen if a hotel by a turtle beach left bright lights on all night?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hotel · What happens: happen, leave · To what, where: bright lights

This is test 3 of lesson 31 «Turtles and tortoises» 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	_	11 left	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hotel	det
6	hotel	hotel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 left	nsubj
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 beach	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 beach	det
9	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 beach	compound
10	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hotel	nmod
11	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
12	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lights	amod
13	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 left	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 night	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 night	det
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 left	obl
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	leave a condition, not said to happen	past	a hotel by a turtle beach	bright lights			night		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=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

Nothing, hatchlings cannot see light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 hatchlings	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	hatchlings	hatchling	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	Nothing hatchlings	light					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The hatchlings might crawl towards the lights instead of the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hatchlings	det
2	hatchlings	hatchling	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crawl	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 crawl	aux
4	crawl	crawl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	towards	towards	ADP	_	7 lights	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lights	det
7	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crawl	obl
8	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	11 sea	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 instead	fixed
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crawl	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl	might	the hatchlings			the lights		instead the sea	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards light=Destination

Option 3

The hatchlings would hatch out faster, as the light warms up the sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hatchlings	det
2	hatchlings	hatchling	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hatch	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hatch	aux
4	hatch	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 hatch	compound:prt
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 hatch	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 warms	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 warms	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 light	det
10	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 warms	nsubj
11	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hatch	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 warms	compound:prt
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sand	det
14	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 warms	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch out	would	the hatchlings					fast property	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient
2	warm up	present	the light	the sand					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sand=Patient

Option 4

The mothers would lay more eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mothers	det
2	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lay	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	aux
4	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 eggs	amod
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	would	the mothers	more eggs					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

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