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Test 3 · ★★ · Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, humming…

A zoo stops giving its flamingos their special food. What would happen?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: zoo · What happens: stop, give, happen · To what, where: flamingos

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 35 «Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, hummingbirds, songbirds, crows» 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

Sentence 1: A zoo stops giving its flamingos their special food.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 zoo	det
2	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stops	nsubj
3	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stops	xcomp
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 flamingos	nmod:poss
6	flamingos	flamingo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 giving	obj
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 food	nmod:poss
8	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 food	amod
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 giving	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stops	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	a zoo						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	give	gerund	a zoo not said here	zoo's flamingos					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent flamingo=Recipient food=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.

Sentence 2: What would happen?

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	?	?	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

The options

Option 1

They would turn green

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 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turn	xcomp

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They would slowly fade to white

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 fade	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fade	aux
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 fade	advmod
4	fade	fade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 white	mark
6	white	white	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fade	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fade	would	They					slowly property	tree rules
2	white	to-infinitive	They not said here						tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, flamingos are always pink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 flamingos	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	flamingos	flamingo	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pink	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pink	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 pink	advmod
6	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

They would grow bigger

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 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	xcomp

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

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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