Test 11 · ★★ · The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and w…

What would happen to a small bird with no food on a long freezing night?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 336 «The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where» 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	_	7 bird	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bird	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 food	case
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 food	det
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bird	nmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	15 night	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 night	det
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 night	amod
14	freezing	freezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 night	compound
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					night	to a small bird with no food	vn occur-48.3-1 «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 grow fatter from the cold

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	fatter	fat	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 cold	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cold	det
7	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It					from the cold; fat property	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from cold=Patient

Option 2

It would fly to Africa at once

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 fly	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Africa	case
5	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fly	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	would	It		Africa				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, because small birds need no food at all in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 need	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 need	mark
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 birds	amod
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	nsubj
6	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	parataxis
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 food	det
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 need	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 winter	case
12	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	small birds	no food		all			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It could lose a lot of weight and might not survive

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 lose	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lot	det
5	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 weight	case
7	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lot	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 survive	cc
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 survive	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 survive	advmod
11	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lose	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	could	It	a lot of weight					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Eventuality
2	not survive	might							vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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