Test 8 · The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay eggs

What would happen if a mother echidna kept her puggle in the pouch after its spines grew?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mother echidna, her, spines · What happens: happen, keep, puggle, grow · To what, where: her, pouch

This is test 8 of lesson 43 «The platypus and the echidna: mammals that lay eggs» 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 kept	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 echidna	det
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 echidna	compound
7	echidna	echidna	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	nsubj
8	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 kept	obj
10	puggle	puggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 kept	xcomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 pouch	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pouch	det
13	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 puggle	obl
14	after	after	SCONJ	_	17 grew	mark
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 spines	nmod:poss
16	spines	spine	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 grew	nsubj
17	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 puggle	advcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	a mother echidna	her = she		tree rules
3	puggle	infinitive	her = she not said here		the pouch	tree rules
4	grow	past	echidna's spines			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 right answer

The spines would prick her, so she moves it to a burrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spines	det
2	spines	spine	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 prick	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 prick	aux
4	prick	prick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 prick	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 moves	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 moves	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 moves	nsubj
9	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 prick	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 moves	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 burrow	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 burrow	det
13	burrow	burrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 moves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prick	would	the spines	her = she					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Patient
2	move	present	she	it		a burrow			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme to burrow=Trajectory

Option 2

The pouch would grow spines too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pouch	det
2	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	spines	spine	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	obj
6	too	too	ADV	_	4 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	the pouch	spines					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spine=Theme

Option 3

The puggle would lay its own egg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 puggle	det
2	puggle	puggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	aux
4	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 egg	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 egg	amod
7	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	would	the puggle	puggle's own egg					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

Option 4

Nothing at all, because baby spines stay soft forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 stay	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stay	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 stay	mark
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spines	compound
7	spines	spine	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stay	nsubj
8	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stay	xcomp
10	forever	forever	ADV	_	8 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	Nothing					forever, soft property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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