Test 5 · ★★ · Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell

What would happen if a rattlesnake lost its heat sense?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rattlesnake · What happens: happen, lose, sense · To what, where: heat sense

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 79 «Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell» 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	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 lost	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rattlesnake	det
6	rattlesnake	rattlesnake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	nsubj
7	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sense	nmod:poss
9	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sense	compound
10	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lose a condition, not said to happen	participle	a rattlesnake	rattlesnake's heat sense	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Eventuality
3	sense		rattlesnake		nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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

It would hunt even better than before, by day and night

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 hunt	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hunt	aux
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 better	advmod
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 hunt	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 before	case
7	before	before	ADV	_	5 better	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 day	punct
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 day	case
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hunt	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 night	cc
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 day	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	would	It				day		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It could no longer smell anything around it at all

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 smell	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 smell	aux
3	no	no	ADV	_	4 longer	advmod
4	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 smell	advmod
5	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 smell	obj
7	around	around	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 anything	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 smell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	could	It	anything		it		at all; long property	vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent anything=Theme at all=Location

Option 3

It would become completely blind in bright daylight

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 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	completely	completely	ADV	_	5 blind	advmod
5	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 become	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 daylight	case
7	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 daylight	amod
8	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blind	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	It					blind property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It would find it harder to catch prey at night

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 find	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 harder	nsubj
5	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 find	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 catch	mark
7	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 harder	xcomp
8	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 catch	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 catch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	It					hard property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	catch	to-infinitive		prey			night		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme

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