Test 5 · Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly, ladybird

What would happen to tadpoles in a pond kept in deep shade instead of sun?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, keep · To what, where: pond, deep shade

This is test 5 of lesson 48 «Life cycles and metamorphosis: frog, butterfly, ladybird» 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	_	5 tadpoles	case
5	tadpoles	tadpole	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 pond	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pond	det
8	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
9	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 pond	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 shade	case
11	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shade	amod
12	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	obl
13	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	15 sun	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	13 instead	fixed
15	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				a pond		to tadpoles	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in pond=Location
2	keep	participle		a pond not said here		deep shade		instead sun	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in shade=Location

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

They would never hatch at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hatch	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hatch	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 hatch	advmod
4	hatch	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 hatch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hatch	would	They			all			vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient

Option 2

They would turn into toads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 toads	case
5	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	They					into toads result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into toad=Result

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They would grow faster because they stay cool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur 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	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 stay	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stay	nsubj
7	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	advcl
8	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	They					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stay	present	they					cool property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They would grow more slowly and become froglets later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur 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	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 slowly	advmod
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 grow	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 become	cc
7	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grow	conj
8	froglets	froglet	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 later	obl:unmarked
9	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 become	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	They					slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	become	infinitive	They not said here					late property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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