Test 5 · Mammals and how they care for their young

What would happen to a baby kangaroo if it could not reach the pouch?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: kangaroo · What happens: happen, not reach · To what, where: pouch

This is test 5 of lesson 75 «Mammals and how they care for their young» of the world 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	to	to	ADP	_	7 kangaroo	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kangaroo	det
6	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kangaroo	compound
7	kangaroo	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 reach	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 reach	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 reach	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 reach	advmod
12	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happen	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pouch	det
14	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reach	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a baby kangaroo	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not reach a condition, not said to happen	could	kangaroo	the pouch					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent pouch=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

It would simply grow up faster outside its mother's body

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 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
3	simply	simply	ADV	_	4 grow	advmod
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 grow	compound:prt
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	advmod
7	outside	outside	ADP	_	11 body	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 body	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 mother	case
11	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	would	It			its mother's body		fast, simply property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside body=Location

Option 2

It would turn into a different animal

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 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 animal	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 animal	det
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animal	amod
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

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

Option 3

Its father would feed it with insects

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 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feed	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 feed	aux
4	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 feed	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 insects	case
7	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 feed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	would	Its father	it				with insects	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It could not drink milk and would not survive

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 drink	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 drink	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 drink	advmod
4	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drink	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 survive	cc
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 survive	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 survive	advmod
9	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 drink	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not drink	could	It	milk					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient
2	not survive	would							vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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