Test 8 · Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a…

What would happen if everyone fed street animals at different spots and times?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, feed

This is test 8 of lesson 371 «Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal» 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	_	8 animals	mark
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 street	nmod:poss
6	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 everyone	acl
7	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 animals	compound
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 spots	case
10	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 spots	amod
11	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 animals	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 times	cc
13	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 spots	conj
14	?	?	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	feed	participle							vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent

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 animals would all become pets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 become	aux
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 become	advmod
5	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	the animals	pets				all property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Food would lie around and bring rats, flies and fights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lie	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lie	aux
3	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	around	around	ADV	_	3 lie	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bring	cc
6	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lie	conj
7	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bring	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 flies	punct
9	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rats	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fights	cc
11	fights	fight	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rats	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie around	would	Food					around property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bring	infinitive	Food not said here	rats and flies and fights					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rat=Theme

Option 3

The street would stay cleaner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 street	det
2	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	aux
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	the street	cleaner					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme cleaner=Location

Option 4

The animals would stop being hungry for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 hungry	cop
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stop	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 ever	case
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 hungry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	the animals						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	gerund	the animals not said here					hungry property	tree rules

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