Test 6 · ★★ · Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughin…

What would happen if you tickled a rat and listened with your ears only?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, tickle, listen · To what, where: rat

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 388 «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» 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 tickled	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tickled	nsubj
6	tickled	tickle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 rat	det
8	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tickled	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 listened	cc
10	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tickled	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 ears	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 ears	nmod:poss
13	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 listened	obl
14	only	only	ADV	_	13 ears	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tickle a condition, not said to happen	past	you	a rat		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Experiencer
3	listen	past	you not said here		with your ears	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

You would probably hear nothing; the chirps are too high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 hear	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 hear	advmod
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 hear	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 high	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chirps	det
8	chirps	chirp	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 high	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 high	cop
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 high	advmod
11	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hear	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	would	You	nothing				probably property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
2	is	present	the chirps					high property	tree rules

Option 2

You would hear loud laughter from the next room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 laughter	amod
5	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 room	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 room	amod
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	would	You	loud laughter		the next room			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent laughter=Topic from room=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It would bark like a little dog

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 bark	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bark	aux
3	bark	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 dog	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dog	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dog	amod
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bark	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	would	It					like a little dog	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It would sing a song

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 sing	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sing	aux
3	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 song	det
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	would	It	a song					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=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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