Test 6 · The big cats house: lions and tigers up close

What would happen if a keeper shaved a patch of a tiger's fur?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: keeper · What happens: happen, shave · To what, where: patch

This is test 6 of lesson 81 «The big cats house: lions and tigers up close» 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	_	7 shaved	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 keeper	det
6	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shaved	nsubj
7	shaved	shave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 patch	det
9	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shaved	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 fur	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tiger	det
12	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fur	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 tiger	case
14	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 patch	nmod
15	?	?	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	shave a condition, not said to happen	participle	a keeper	a patch of a tiger's fur					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=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 · ← Mova's choice

The tiger would lose all its stripes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tiger	det
2	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lose	aux
4	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 stripes	det:predet
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 stripes	nmod:poss
7	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	the tiger	tiger's stripes					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stripe=Eventuality

Option 2

The fur would grow back with no stripes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fur	det
2	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 grow	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 stripes	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 stripes	det
8	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow back	would	the fur					with no stripes	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The stripes would still show on the skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stripes	det
2	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 show	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 show	aux
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 show	advmod
5	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 skin	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 skin	det
8	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 show	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	would	the stripes			the skin	still		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The skin would be plain pink underneath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 skin	det
2	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pink	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 pink	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 pink	cop
5	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pink	amod
6	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	6 pink	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the skin					pink, underneath property	tree rules

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