Test 6 · The aviary: the walk-through tropical house

What would happen to a hummingbird that missed its meals for a whole day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hummingbird · What happens: happen, miss · To what, where: meals

This is test 6 of lesson 93 «The aviary: the walk-through tropical house» 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	_	6 hummingbird	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hummingbird	det
6	hummingbird	hummingbird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 missed	nsubj
8	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hummingbird	acl:relcl
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 meals	nmod:poss
10	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 missed	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 day	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 day	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 day	amod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 missed	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a hummingbird	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	miss	past	a hummingbird	hummingbird's meals			day		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer meal=Stimulus

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

Nothing, as hummingbirds can go for weeks without any food

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	_	6 go	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 go	mark
4	hummingbirds	hummingbird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 weeks	case
8	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	obl
9	without	without	ADP	_	11 food	case
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 food	det
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	can	hummingbirds				week	without any food	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It could run out of energy, because hovering burns so much

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 run	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 energy	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 energy	case
6	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 run	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 burns	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 burns	mark
9	hovering	hover	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 burns	nsubj
10	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 run	advcl
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 much	advmod
12	much	much	ADV	_	10 burns	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	run	could	It	energy	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out energy=Trajectory
2	hover	gerund			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	burn	present			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It would start eating seeds

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 start	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 start	aux
3	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 start	xcomp
5	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	It						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund		seeds					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient

Option 4

It would grow bigger

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 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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