Test 2 · How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, dr…
What would happen if a film crew walked noisily up to a family of foxes in the open?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: film crew · What happens: happen, walk · To what, where: family
This is test 2 of lesson 394 «How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting» 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 walked | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 crew | det |
| 6 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crew | compound |
| 7 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walked | nsubj |
| 8 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | advcl |
| 9 | noisily | noisily | ADV | _ | 8 walked | advmod |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 family | case |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 family | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 family | det |
| 13 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walked | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 foxes | case |
| 15 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 family | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 open | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 open | det |
| 18 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 foxes | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | 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 | walk a condition, not said to happen | past | a film crew | a family of foxes in the open | noisily property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up family=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
The foxes would follow the crew home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 foxes | det |
| 2 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 follow | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 follow | aux |
| 4 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crew | det |
| 6 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 follow | obj |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 follow | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | would | the foxes | the crew | home property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crew=Theme |
Option 2
The foxes would stop and pose for the camera, like people do for a photo
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 foxes | det |
| 2 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stop | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stop | aux |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 pose | cc |
| 6 | pose | pose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stop | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 camera | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 camera | det |
| 9 | camera | camera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pose | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 11 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 do | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stop | parataxis |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 photo | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 photo | det |
| 16 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 do | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | would | the foxes | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | pose | infinitive | the foxes not said here | for the camera | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | do | present | people | for a photo | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
The foxes would act the same as always
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 foxes | det |
| 2 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 act | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 act | aux |
| 4 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 same | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 act | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 always | case |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 act | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | act | would | the foxes | the same | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The foxes would probably stop what they were doing or run away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 foxes | det |
| 2 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stop | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stop | aux |
| 4 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 5 stop | advmod |
| 5 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 doing | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 doing | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 doing | aux |
| 9 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 stop | ccomp |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 run | cc |
| 11 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stop | conj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 run | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | would | the foxes | probably property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | do | past · progressive | foxes = fox | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | run away | present | the foxes not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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