Test 9 · The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and d…

What would happen if lots of people fed the quokkas every day?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lots · What happens: happen, feed · To what, where: quokkas

This is test 9 of lesson 103 «The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and dingoes» of the biology 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 fed	mark
5	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fed	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 people	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lots	nmod
8	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 quokkas	det
10	quokkas	quokka	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fed	obj
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fed	obl:unmarked
13	?	?	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	feed a condition, not said to happen	past	lots of people	the quokkas			day		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quokka=Recipient

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 · ✓ the right answer

They could get ill and lose fear of people, so it is banned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fear	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 lose	cc
6	lose	lose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ill	conj
7	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 people	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fear	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 banned	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 banned	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 banned	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 banned	aux:pass
14	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 get	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	get	could	They	ill fear of people	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fear=Stimulus
2	ban	present · passive		fear	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	fear			people	nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

They would learn to smile more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur 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 smile	mark
5	smile	smile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 learn	xcomp
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 smile	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	They						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	smile	to-infinitive	They not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nothing, because quokkas only eat leaves anyway and ignore the food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 eat	mark
4	quokkas	quokka	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	nsubj
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 eat	advmod
6	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	parataxis
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	obj
8	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	6 eat	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ignore	cc
10	ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 food	det
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ignore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	quokkas	leaves				anyway property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
2	ignore	present	quokkas not said here	the food					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They would grow into kangaroos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 kangaroos	case
5	kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	They					into kangaroos result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into kangaroo=Result

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