Test 6 · How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standing horses,…

What would happen if a giraffe lay down for a long sleep with lions nearby?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giraffe · What happens: happen, lie down

This is test 6 of lesson 390 «How animals sleep: half-asleep dolphins, standing horses, short-sleeping giraffes and birds that nap in the air» 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	_	7 lay	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 giraffe	det
6	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	nsubj
7	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 lay	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 sleep	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sleep	det
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sleep	amod
12	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 lions	case
14	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sleep	nmod
15	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	7 lay	advmod
16	?	?	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	lie down a condition, not said to happen	past	a giraffe					for a long sleep with lions; down, nearby property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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

Lions never hunt giraffes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hunt	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 hunt	advmod
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hunt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hunt	present	Lions	giraffes					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giraffe=Theme

Option 2

It would jump up in a second

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 jump	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 jump	aux
3	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 jump	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 second	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 second	det
7	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jump	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump up	would	It				second		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, giraffes sleep lying all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 sleep	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sleep	nsubj
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 sleep	xcomp
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lying	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	giraffes					Nothing vocative	tree rules
2	lie	gerund	giraffes not said here				night		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It would be slow to get up and in danger

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	4 slow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 slow	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 slow	cop
4	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 slow	advcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 get	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 danger	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 danger	case
10	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slow	conj

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

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