Test 6 · The butterfly house

What would it be like to taste with your feet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: be

This is test 6 of lesson 98 «The butterfly 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	7 taste	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 taste	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 taste	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 taste	cop
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 taste	mark
6	to	to	PART	_	7 taste	mark
7	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 feet	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 feet	nmod:poss
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 taste	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 taste	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	it					with your feet; taste property	tree rules

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

You would never need to eat with your mouth again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 need	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 need	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 need	advmod
4	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 need	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 mouth	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mouth	nmod:poss
9	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obl
10	again	again	ADV	_	6 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	would	You						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	You not said here				again	with your mouth	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

You could only taste when barefoot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 taste	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 taste	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 taste	advmod
4	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 barefoot	mark
6	barefoot	barefoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taste	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	could	You	barefoot					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Your shoes would always taste of food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 shoes	nmod:poss
2	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 taste	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 taste	aux
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 taste	advmod
5	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 food	case
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taste	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	would	Your shoes					of food; always property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

You would know if a leaf was right just by standing on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 know	aux
3	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 right	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 leaf	det
6	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 right	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 right	cop
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 know	ccomp
9	just	just	ADV	_	11 standing	advmod
10	by	by	SCONJ	_	11 standing	mark
11	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 know	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 standing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	know	would	You			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	a leaf		right property	tree rules
3	stand	gerund	You not said here	leaf		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location

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