Test 8 · ★ · Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show

What would happen if the trainer stopped giving the hawk meat?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: trainer · What happens: happen, stop, give · To what, where: hawk meat

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 94 «Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show» 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 stopped	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trainer	det
6	trainer	trainer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stopped	nsubj
7	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stopped	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 meat	det
10	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 meat	compound
11	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 giving	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop a condition, not said to happen	past	the trainer		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	give	gerund	the trainer not said here	the hawk meat	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=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

It would keep coming back anyway, out of love for the trainer

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 keep	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keep	xcomp
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 coming	advmod
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 coming	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 love	punct
8	out	out	ADP	_	10 love	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 love	case
10	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	vocative
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 trainer	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 trainer	det
13	trainer	trainer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	It					for the trainer; love vocative	tree rules
2	come back	gerund						anyway property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It would learn to talk

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 learn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 learn	aux
3	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 talk	mark
5	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 learn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	It						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	talk	to-infinitive							vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

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 · ✓ the right answer

It would probably stop coming back to the glove

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	4 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 stop	advmod
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 coming	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 glove	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 glove	det
9	glove	glove	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	It					probably property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	come back	gerund				the glove			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to glove=Initial_Location

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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