Test 7 · ★★ · The nocturnal house: night animals by red light

What would happen if the nocturnal house kept its lights bright all through the zoo day?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nocturnal house, house · What happens: happen, keep, light · To what, where: lights

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 95 «The nocturnal house: night animals by red light» 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	_	8 kept	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
6	nocturnal	nocturnal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 house	amod
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	nsubj
8	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 lights	nmod:poss
10	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 kept	obj
11	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kept	xcomp
12	all	all	ADV	_	16 day	advmod
13	through	through	ADP	_	16 day	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 day	det
15	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 day	compound
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	the nocturnal house	house's lights	day	bright property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
3	light		house				nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

The night animals would sleep while visitors came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 animals	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 animals	compound
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sleep	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sleep	aux
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
7	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sleep	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	would	the night animals						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	visitors						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The animals would all turn into day animals overnight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 turn	aux
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 turn	advmod
5	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 animals	case
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 animals	compound
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turn	obl
9	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	5 turn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the animals					into day animals result; all, overnight property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into animal=Result

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, night animals are always awake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 night	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 animals	compound
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 awake	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 awake	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 awake	advmod
7	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	night animals					always, awake property	tree rules

Option 4

The animals would glow in the bright light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 glow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 glow	aux
4	glow	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 light	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 light	det
7	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 light	amod
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 glow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	would	the animals			the bright light			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location

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