Test 10 · ★ · Birds of prey and owls

What would happen if a peregrine dived with its wings spread wide open?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: peregrine · What happens: happen, dive, spread · To what, where: peregrine

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 34 «Birds of prey and owls» 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 spread	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 peregrine	det
6	peregrine	peregrine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spread	nsubj
7	dived	dive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 peregrine	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 wings	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wings	nmod:poss
10	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dived	obl
11	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
12	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 open	advmod
13	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 spread	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dive	participle		a peregrine not said here	with peregrine's wings	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	spread a condition, not said to happen	present	a peregrine			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

It would go even faster

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 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 faster	advmod
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	It					fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It would fly backwards

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	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	3 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	would	It					backwards property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The air would slow it down a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 air	det
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 slow	aux
4	slow	slow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slow	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 slow	compound:prt
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lot	det
8	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slow	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slow down	would	the air	it				a lot obl:unmarked	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

It would land on the cathedral

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 land	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 land	aux
3	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 cathedral	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cathedral	det
6	cathedral	cathedral	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 land	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	would	It			the cathedral			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on cathedral=Destination

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