Test 5 · ★★★ · Thinking like an animal

What would happen to a fledgling if a kind boy took it home to «save» it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kind boy · What happens: happen, take, save · To what, where: fledgling

This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 30 «Thinking like an animal» of the everyday 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 fledgling	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fledgling	det
6	fledgling	fledgling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 took	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 boy	det
9	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 boy	amod
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	nsubj
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 took	obj
13	home	home	ADV	_	11 took	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	16 save	mark
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 save	punct
16	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 took	advcl
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 save	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 save	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would			to a fledgling	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take a condition, not said to happen	past	a kind boy	fledgling	home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	save in a quote	to-infinitive	a kind boy not said here	fledgling		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 · ← Mova's choice

It would learn to fly sooner indoors

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 fly	mark
5	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 learn	xcomp
6	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 fly	advmod
7	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	5 fly	advmod

#	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	fly	to-infinitive						indoors, soon property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nothing, fledglings do not need parents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 fledglings	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	fledglings	fledgling	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 need	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 need	advmod
6	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present · do-support	Nothing fledglings	parents					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot parent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It would lose its parents, who are best at feeding and teaching it

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 lose	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 parents	nmod:poss
5	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lose	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 best	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 best	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 best	cop
9	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 parents	parataxis
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 feeding	case
11	feeding	feeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 best	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 teaching	cc
13	teaching	teach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 lose	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 teaching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	lose	would	It	its parents				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Eventuality
2	is	present	its parents			feeding	good property	tree rules
3	teach speech: other	gerund			feeding			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

Option 4

It would grow faster than in the wild

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	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	8 wild	case
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 wild	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wild	det
8	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl

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

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