Test 5 · ★★ · Wild animals and tall tales

What would happen if you touched a porcupine's back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, touch · To what, where: back

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 8 «Wild animals and tall tales» 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 touched	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 touched	nsubj
6	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 porcupine	det
8	porcupine	porcupine	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 back	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 porcupine	case
10	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 touched	obj
11	?	?	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	touch a condition, not said to happen	past	you	a porcupine's back					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme back=Co-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 · ✓ the right answer

Quills could come loose and stick into your hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quills	quill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	loose	loose	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stick	cc
6	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 come	conj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 hand	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hand	nmod:poss
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	could	Quills					loose property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stick	infinitive	Quills not said here			your hand			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into hand=Destination

Option 2

It would fire its sharp quills at you from far away

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	6 quills	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 quills	aux
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 quills	nsubj
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 quills	nmod:poss
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 quills	amod
6	quills	quill	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 quills	nmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 far	case
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 quills	advmod
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 far	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

It would roll away like a ball

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 roll	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 roll	aux
3	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 roll	advmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 ball	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ball	det
7	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 roll	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll away	would	It					like a ball; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nothing, quills are soft like fur

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 quills	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	quills	quill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 soft	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 soft	cop
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 fur	case
7	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soft	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing quills					like fur; soft property	tree rules

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