Test 5 · ★ · How animals hunt

What would happen if a garden spider's web had no sticky threads?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: web · What happens: happen, have · To what, where: sticky threads

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 52 «How animals hunt» 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	_	10 had	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spider	det
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spider	compound
7	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 web	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 spider	case
9	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 threads	det
12	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 threads	amod
13	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj
14	?	?	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	have a condition, not said to happen	past	a garden spider's web	no sticky threads					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=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

The web would last for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 web	det
2	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 last	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 last	aux
4	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 ever	case
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 last	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	would	the web						vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The spider would catch more flies than ever before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spider	det
2	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 catch	aux
4	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 flies	amod
6	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 catch	obj
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 ever	case
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 catch	obl
9	before	before	ADV	_	4 catch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	would	the spider	more flies				before property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme

Option 3

Birds would get stuck instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Birds					instead, stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Insects would hit it and fly away again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hit	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hit	aux
3	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hit	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fly	cc
6	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hit	conj
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 fly	advmod
8	again	again	ADV	_	6 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	would	Insects	it					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
2	fly away	infinitive	Insects not said here				again	away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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