Test 9 · Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what…

What would happen to a hen's eggshells if she got too little calcium in her food?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: she · What happens: happen, get · To what, where: little calcium, food

This is test 9 of lesson 342 «Where eggs come from: hens, shell colours, sizes and what is inside» 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	_	8 eggshells	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hen	det
6	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eggshells	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 hen	case
8	eggshells	eggshell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 got	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	nsubj
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 little	advmod
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 calcium	amod
14	calcium	calcium	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 food	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 food	nmod:poss
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a hen's eggshells	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get a condition, not said to happen	past	she	little calcium		her food			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer calcium=Stimulus

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

They would have no yolks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 yolks	det
5	yolks	yolk	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	They	no yolks					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yolk=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They would be thin and weak or even soft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thin	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 thin	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 thin	cop
4	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 weak	cc
6	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thin	conj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 soft	cc
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 soft	advmod
9	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thin	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	would	They	thin property	tree rules
2	be		They not said here		tree rules
3	be		They not said here		tree rules

Option 3

They would get thicker and much harder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 harder	cc
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 harder	advmod
7	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	They					thick property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They would slowly turn a pale blue colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 colour	det
6	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 colour	amod
7	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 colour	amod
8	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	They	a pale blue colour				slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent colour=Theme

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