Test 5 · Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived

What would happen to a dinosaur egg as big as a car?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen

This is test 5 of lesson 75 «Dinosaurs: kinds, sizes and how they lived» 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 egg	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 egg	det
6	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 egg	compound
7	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 big	advmod
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 egg	amod
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 car	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 car	det
12	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 big	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a dinosaur egg	vn occur-48.3-1 «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

It would hatch a baby twice the size of any other dinosaur ever seen

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 hatch	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hatch	aux
3	hatch	hatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 baby	det
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hatch	obj
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 hatch	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 size	det
8	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hatch	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 dinosaur	case
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 dinosaur	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dinosaur	amod
12	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 size	nmod
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 seen	advmod
14	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 dinosaur	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch	would	It	a baby				twice property	tree rules
2	see	participle		any other dinosaur not said here			ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Nothing, big eggs are best

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 best	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eggs	punct
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eggs	amod
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nothing	conj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 best	cop
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

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

Option 3

It would roll away and hatch on its own

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 roll	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 roll	aux
3	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 roll	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hatch	cc
6	hatch	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 roll	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 own	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 own	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hatch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll away	would	It					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hatch	present				its own			vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The shell would be too thick for the baby to break out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shell	det
2	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thick	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 thick	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 thick	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 thick	advmod
6	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 baby	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 baby	det
9	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thick	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 break	mark
11	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thick	advcl
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 break	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the shell					for the baby; thick property	tree rules
2	break out	to-infinitive	the shell not said here						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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