Test 5 · ★ · Birds of prey and owls

What would happen if a barn owl's flight were as noisy as a pigeon's?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: flight · What happens: happen, be

This is test 5 · ★ 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	_	12 noisy	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 owl	det
6	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 owl	compound
7	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flight	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 owl	case
9	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 noisy	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 noisy	cop
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 noisy	advmod
12	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 happen	advcl
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 pigeon	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pigeon	det
15	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 noisy	obl
16	's	's	PART	_	15 pigeon	case
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	a barn owl's flight					as a pigeon; noisy property	tree rules

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 right answer

Mice would hear it coming, and it would hear them less well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hear	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hear	obj
5	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 hear	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hear	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hear	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hear	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hear	aux
10	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hear	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hear	obj
12	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 well	advmod
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 hear	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	would	Mice	it		tree rules
2	come	gerund				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	would	it	Mice = mouse	well property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 2

It would fly 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 fly	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 fly	advmod

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

Option 3

Nothing, mice are deaf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 mice	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 deaf	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 deaf	cop
5	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing mice					deaf property	tree rules

Option 4

It would catch more mice

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 catch	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 catch	aux
3	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 mice	amod
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	would	It	more mice					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme

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