Test 3 · ★ · Eyes and ears

What would happen if you ate a whole bag of carrots before a night walk?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, eat · To what, where: whole bag

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 3 «Eyes and ears» of the myths 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	_	6 ate	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 ate	nsubj
6	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bag	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bag	amod
9	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 carrots	case
11	carrots	carrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bag	nmod
12	before	before	ADP	_	15 walk	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 walk	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 walk	compound
15	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat a condition, not said to happen	past	you	a whole bag of carrots			before a night walk		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient

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'd see in the dark but only for an hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 dark	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dark	det
6	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obl
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 hour	cc
8	only	only	ADV	_	11 hour	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 hour	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hour	det
11	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dark	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	would	You			the dark but a hour			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

You'd see in the dark like an owl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 dark	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dark	det
6	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obl
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 owl	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 owl	det
9	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	would	You			the dark		like a owl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

You'd see in the dark no better than usual

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 dark	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dark	det
6	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obl
7	no	no	ADV	_	8 better	advmod
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 see	obl
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 usual	case
10	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	would	You	better		the dark			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

You'd glow a little orange

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 glow	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 glow	aux
3	glow	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 orange	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 orange	amod
6	orange	orange	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	would	You	a little orange					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent orange=Theme

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