Test 12 · ★ · Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Wi…

What would happen to a real woodpecker's head when it pecks 20 times a second?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: head · What happens: happen, peck

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 396 «Cartoon animals put right: Scooby-Doo, Garfield, Sonic, Winnie the Pooh and Woody Woodpecker» 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	_	9 head	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 woodpecker	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woodpecker	amod
7	woodpecker	woodpecker	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 head	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 woodpecker	case
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 pecks	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pecks	nsubj
12	pecks	peck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
13	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 times	nummod
14	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pecks	obl:unmarked
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 second	det
16	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 times	nmod:unmarked
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a real woodpecker's head	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	peck	present	head				time		vn chew-39.2 «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

It would break its beak each time

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 break	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 break	aux
3	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 beak	nmod:poss
5	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 break	obj
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 break	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	would	It	its beak			time		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beak=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Its skull, neck muscles and beak are built to take the knocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 skull	nmod:poss
2	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 built	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 muscles	punct
4	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 muscles	compound
5	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 skull	appos
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 beak	cc
7	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 muscles	conj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 built	aux:pass
9	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 take	mark
11	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 built	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 knocks	det
13	knocks	knock	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present · passive		Its skull					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	take	to-infinitive		the knocks					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knock=Theme

Option 3

It would get a bad headache and have to stop pecking for a few days

The tree, 15 words

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 headache	det
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 headache	amod
6	headache	headache	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 have	cc
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 get	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 stop	mark
10	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 have	xcomp
11	pecking	peck	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 stop	xcomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 days	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 days	det
14	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 days	amod
15	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 pecking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	get	would	It	a bad headache		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer headache=Stimulus
2	have	present				tree rules
3	stop	to-infinitive				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	peck	gerund			day	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It would fall off the tree

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 fall	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 fall	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fall	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	would	It	the tree					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient tree=Extent

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