Test 4 · Life begins: being born and growing up

What would happen if a newborn human had to walk away from lions like a baby giraffe?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: newborn human · What happens: happen, have, walk away

This is test 4 of lesson 51 «Life begins: being born and growing up» of the religion ethics 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	_	8 had	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 human	det
6	newborn	newborn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 human	amod
7	human	human	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 walk	mark
10	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 had	xcomp
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 walk	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 lions	case
13	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 walk	obl
14	like	like	ADP	_	17 giraffe	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 giraffe	det
16	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 giraffe	compound
17	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lions	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have a condition, not said to happen	past	a newborn human		tree rules
3	walk away	to-infinitive	a newborn human not said here	from lions like a baby giraffe; away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from lion=Source

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

It would learn to walk in five minutes

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 walk	mark
5	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 learn	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 minutes	case
7	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 minutes	nummod
8	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 walk	obl

#	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	walk	to-infinitive					minute		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It could not; human babies need adults to carry and protect them

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	7 need	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 need	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 need	advmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 need	punct
5	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 babies	amod
6	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 need	nsubj
7	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 need	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 carry	mark
10	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 need	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 protect	cc
12	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 carry	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 protect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not need	could	It	adults	tree rules
2	carry not said to happen	to-infinitive	adults not said here		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	protect	infinitive	adults not said here	adults = adult	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary

Option 3

It would hide in a seed until danger passed

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 hide	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hide	aux
3	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 seed	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 seed	det
6	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hide	obl
7	until	until	ADP	_	8 danger	case
8	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hide	obl
9	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 danger	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	would	It			a seed	until danger		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in seed=Location
2	pass	participle		danger not said here					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It would run faster than the giraffe

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 run	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 run	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 giraffe	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 giraffe	det
7	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	would	It					than the giraffe; fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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