Test 2 · ★ · Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dun…

What would happen if a rabbit could not eat its soft droppings?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rabbit · What happens: happen, not eat · To what, where: soft droppings

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 398 «Poo, wee and smells: rabbits that eat their droppings, dung beetles and the smelliest animals» 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	_	9 eat	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rabbit	det
6	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eat	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 eat	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 eat	advmod
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happen	advcl
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 droppings	nmod:poss
11	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 droppings	amod
12	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 eat	obj
13	?	?	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	not eat a condition, not said to happen	could	a rabbit	rabbit's soft droppings					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dropping=Patient

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 stop making droppings

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 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	droppings	dropping	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 making	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	It						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	make	gerund		droppings					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dropping=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It would get less goodness out of its 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 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 goodness	amod
5	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 food	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 food	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 food	nmod:poss
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	It	less goodness		goodness's food			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goodness=Stimulus

Option 3

Nothing at all would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It would grow faster and bigger than ever before

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	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bigger	cc
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	conj
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 ever	case
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 bigger	obl
9	before	before	ADV	_	3 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It					before, fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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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