Test 5 · ★★ · Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents

What would happen to turtle hatchlings on a beach next to a brightly lit hotel?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, lit · To what, where: turtle hatchlings, beach

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 49 «Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents» 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	PART	_	6 hatchlings	mark
5	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hatchlings	compound
6	hatchlings	hatchling	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 beach	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 beach	det
9	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hatchlings	nmod
10	next	next	ADV	_	3 happen	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	15 hotel	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hotel	det
13	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	14 lit	advmod
14	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 hotel	amod
15	hotel	hotel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 next	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would		turtle hatchlings		a beach		next property	tree rules
2	lit	participle						brightly property	tree rules

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

Nothing, they always find the sea by smell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 find	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 find	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 find	advmod
5	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 smell	case
9	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present	they	the sea				by smell; always property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They might crawl towards the lights instead of the sea

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 crawl	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 crawl	aux
3	crawl	crawl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	towards	towards	ADP	_	6 lights	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lights	det
6	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crawl	obl
7	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	10 sea	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 instead	fixed
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crawl	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl	might	They			the lights		instead the sea	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards light=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They would hatch much faster in the warm light

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 hatch	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hatch	aux
3	hatch	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 faster	advmod
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 hatch	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 light	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 light	det
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 light	amod
9	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hatch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch	would	They			the warm light		fast property	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient

Option 4

They would all become male

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 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 become	advmod
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	They					all, male property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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