Test 7 · Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's sea eagles…

What would happen to a tree holding an eagle nest that grows heavier every year?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: tree, eagle nest · What happens: happen, hold, grow · To what, where: eagle nest

This is test 7 of lesson 323 «Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's sea eagles and eagle eyes» 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	_	6 tree	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 tree	acl
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 nest	det
9	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nest	compound
10	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 holding	obj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 grows	nsubj
12	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 nest	acl:relcl
13	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 grows	xcomp
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 year	det
15	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grows	obl:unmarked
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				to a tree	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hold	gerund	a tree not said here	a eagle nest			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme
3	grow	present	a eagle nest		year	heavy property	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

It would turn into a nest itself

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 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 nest	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 nest	det
6	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 turn	obj

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

Option 2

Nothing, trees can hold anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 trees	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hold	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hold	aux
5	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	can	Nothing trees	anything					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme

Option 3

It would grow faster and taller because of all the extra weight

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 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 taller	cc
6	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 faster	conj
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 weight	mark
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 because	fixed
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 weight	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 weight	det
11	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 weight	amod
12	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Its branches may break or it may fall in a storm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 branches	nmod:poss
2	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 break	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 break	aux
4	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 fall	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fall	nsubj
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fall	aux
8	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 break	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 storm	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 storm	det
11	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	may	Its branches						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	fall	may	it			a storm			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in storm=Location

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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