Test 4 · ★ · Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon»

What would happen if Callum had left the baby bird where it was?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Callum · What happens: happen, leave · To what, where: baby bird

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 57 «Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon»» 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	_	7 left	mark
5	Callum	Callum	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 left	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 left	aux
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bird	det
9	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bird	compound
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obj
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 was	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 was	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bird	acl:relcl
14	?	?	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	leave a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	Callum	the baby bird					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=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

Nothing at all would ever have happened to it after that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 happened	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 happened	aux
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 happened	advmod
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 happened	aux
7	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 happened	obl
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 that	case
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 happened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect	Nothing		it		after that; ever		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would certainly have turned into a little frog

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	5 turned	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 turned	aux
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 turned	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 turned	aux
5	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 frog	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 frog	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 frog	amod
9	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would · perfect	It					into a little frog result; certainly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into frog=Result

Option 3

It would have flown off at once all the way to Africa

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	4 flown	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 flown	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 flown	aux
4	flown	fly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 flown	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 flown	obl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 way	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 way	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flown	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Africa	case
12	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 way	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	would · perfect · passive		It					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme at once=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Its parents might have kept feeding it nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 parents	nmod:poss
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kept	nsubj:pass
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 kept	aux
5	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	feeding	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 feeding	obj
8	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	6 feeding	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	might · perfect · passive		Its parents					tree rules
2	feed	gerund	Its parents not said here	it				nearby property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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