Test 7 · Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and was…

What would happen to a lizard kept for months with no UVB?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, keep · To what, where: lizard

This is test 7 of lesson 329 «Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands» 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 lizard	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lizard	det
6	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lizard	acl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 months	case
9	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kept	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 UVB	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 UVB	det
12	UVB	uvb	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kept	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a lizard	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	participle		a lizard not said here			month	with no UVB	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

It would grow an extra pair of legs

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	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pair	det
5	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pair	amod
6	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 legs	case
8	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pair	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It	a extra pair of legs					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pair=Theme

Option 2

It would become faster and stronger

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 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 become	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stronger	cc
6	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	It					fast, strong property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Its bones could grow soft and bent

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 bones	nmod:poss
2	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grow	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bent	cc
7	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 soft	conj

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

Option 4

Nothing at all would change in its body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 body	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 body	nmod:poss
8	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing			its body			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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