Test 9 · ★★ · Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe…

What would happen if a stag's antler velvet were badly torn while the antler was still growing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: antler · What happens: happen, tear, grow · To what, where: antler velvet

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 318 «Deer: antlers that fall off and grow again; red deer, roe deer, moose, muntjac and water deer» 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	_	12 torn	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stag	det
6	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 velvet	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 stag	case
8	antler	antler	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 velvet	compound
9	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 torn	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 torn	aux:pass
11	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 torn	advmod
12	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 growing	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 antler	det
15	antler	antler	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 growing	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 growing	aux
17	still	still	ADV	_	18 growing	advmod
18	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 torn	advcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tear a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		a stag's antler velvet		badly property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	grow	past · progressive	the antler		still		vn appear-48.1.1 «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 stag would stop growing for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stag	det
2	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 ever	case
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 growing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	the stag						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	grow	gerund	the stag not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nothing at all, because velvet has no blood and no feeling in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 has	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 has	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 has	mark
6	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 blood	det
9	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 feeling	cc
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 feeling	det
12	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blood	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 feeling	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Nothing	no blood and no feeling in velvet					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It would bleed, because the velvet is full of blood vessels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bleed	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bleed	aux
3	bleed	bleed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 full	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 full	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 velvet	det
7	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 full	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 full	cop
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bleed	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 vessels	case
11	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 vessels	compound
12	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bleed	would	It						vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
2	is	present	the velvet					of blood vessels; full property	tree rules

Option 4

The antler would turn into a horn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 antler	det
2	antler	antler	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 horn	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 horn	det
7	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the antler			a horn			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into horn=Trajectory

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