Test 6 · The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world

What would happen to an Arctic fox that stayed white all summer on brown tundra?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Arctic fox · What happens: happen, stay · To what, where: brown tundra

This is test 6 of lesson 6 «The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world» 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	_	7 fox	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fox	det
6	Arctic	arctic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fox	amod
7	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 stayed	nsubj
9	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fox	acl:relcl
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stayed	xcomp
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 summer	det
12	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stayed	obl:unmarked
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 tundra	case
14	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tundra	amod
15	tundra	tundra	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stayed	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a Arctic fox	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stay	past	a Arctic fox			brown tundra	summer	white property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tundra=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 · ← Mova's choice

It would turn into a snowy owl

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 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 owl	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 owl	det
6	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 owl	amod
7	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It			a snowy owl			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into owl=Trajectory

Option 2

Nothing, white is invisible everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 invisible	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 white	punct
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 invisible	cop
5	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 invisible	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					everywhere, invisible property	tree rules

Option 3

It would stay cooler in the sun and catch more 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 stay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	cooler	cool	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 stay	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stay	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 catch	cc
9	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	conj
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 food	amod
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	It			the sun		cool property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=Location
2	catch	present		more food					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Its prey and predators would spot it more easily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 prey	nmod:poss
2	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spot	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 predators	cc
4	predators	predator	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 prey	conj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 spot	aux
6	spot	spot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 spot	obj
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 easily	advmod
9	easily	easily	ADV	_	6 spot	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spot	would	Its prey and predators	it				easily property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination

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