Test 3 · ★ · Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshop…

What would happen if you rubbed all the scales off a butterfly's wing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, rub · To what, where: scales, wing

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 37 «Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers» 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	_	6 rubbed	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 rubbed	nsubj
6	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 scales	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 scales	det
9	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rubbed	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	14 wing	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 butterfly	det
12	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wing	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 butterfly	case
14	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rubbed	obl
15	?	?	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	rub a condition, not said to happen	past	you	all scales		a butterfly's wing			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent scale=Theme off wing=Source

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 a full set of new scales within a minute or two

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 set	det
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 set	amod
6	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 scales	case
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 scales	amod
9	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 set	nmod
10	within	within	ADP	_	12 minute	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 minute	det
12	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 two	cc
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 minute	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It	a full set of new scales			minute		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location set=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

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, the scales are just dirt

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	_	7 dirt	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 scales	det
4	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dirt	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dirt	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 dirt	advmod
7	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the scales	dirt					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It would lose its colours and patterns

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	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 colours	nmod:poss
5	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lose	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 patterns	cc
7	patterns	pattern	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 colours	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	It	its colours and patterns					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Eventuality

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