Test 8 · ★ · Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, th…

What would happen to a giant ape if the fruit forest around it turned into dry grassland?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fruit forest · What happens: happen, turn · To what, where: dry grassland

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 384 «Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus» 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	_	7 ape	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ape	det
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ape	amod
7	ape	ape	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 turned	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 forest	det
10	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 forest	compound
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 turned	nsubj
12	around	around	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 forest	nmod
14	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 grassland	case
16	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grassland	amod
17	grassland	grassland	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 turned	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a giant ape	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	turn a condition, not said to happen	past	the fruit forest around ape			dry grassland			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into grassland=Trajectory

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

It would start eating grass at once

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 start	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 start	aux
3	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 grass	amod
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 start	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 start	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	It	eating grass					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It would get bigger

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It would struggle to find enough food

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 struggle	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 struggle	aux
3	struggle	struggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 find	mark
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 struggle	xcomp
6	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 food	amod
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	struggle	would	It						tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive		enough food					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic

Option 4

It would grow wings and leave

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	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 leave	cc
6	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It	wings					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
2	leave	infinitive							vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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