Test 4 · ★★ · Keeping garden wildlife safe

What would probably happen if you ran at a robin to see it closer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, run, see · To what, where: robin

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 72 «Keeping garden wildlife safe» 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	4 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 happen	advmod
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 ran	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 ran	nsubj
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 robin	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 robin	det
10	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ran	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ran	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 see	obj
14	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 see	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	would				probably property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run a condition, not said to happen	past	you		a robin		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at robin=Trajectory
3	see	to-infinitive	you not said here	robin		close property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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

It would let you hold 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 let	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 let	aux
3	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	would	It	you					tree rules
2	hold	infinitive	you not said here	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It would fly away and you would see nothing

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 fly	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 fly	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 see	cc
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 see	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 see	aux
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fly	conj
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	would	It					away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	would	you	nothing					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

Option 3

It would freeze and not notice you

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 freeze	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 freeze	aux
3	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 notice	cc
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 notice	advmod
6	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 freeze	conj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 notice	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	would	It						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	not notice	infinitive		you					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 4

It would hop closer to you to see who you are

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 hop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hop	aux
3	hop	hop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 hop	xcomp
5	to	to	SCONJ	_	8 see	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 see	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hop	advcl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	8 see	ccomp
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 who	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 who	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hop	would	It	close property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	present	you		tree rules

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