Test 6 · ★ · The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs an…

What would happen to pandas if one kind of bamboo flowered and died in their forest?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one kind · What happens: happen, flower, die

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 107 «The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears» 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	to	to	ADP	_	5 pandas	case
5	pandas	panda	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 flowered	mark
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 kind	nummod
8	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flowered	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 bamboo	case
10	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kind	nmod
11	flowered	flower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 died	cc
13	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 flowered	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 forest	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 forest	nmod:poss
16	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 died	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would		to pandas	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	flower a condition, not said to happen	past	one kind of bamboo		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die	past	one kind of bamboo not said here	in pandas's forest	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in forest=Attribute

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

They would start to eat tigers

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 start	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 start	aux
3	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 start	xcomp
6	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	They						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat	to-infinitive	They not said here	tigers					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They would move to other kinds, if there are some nearby

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 move	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 move	aux
3	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 kinds	case
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kinds	amod
6	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 move	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 are	punct
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 are	mark
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 are	expl
10	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 move	parataxis
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 are	nsubj
12	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	3 move	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	would	They			other kinds		nearby property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to kind=Trajectory
2	be a condition, not said to happen	present	some			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They would sleep all through the years until it grows back

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 sleep	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sleep	aux
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	all	all	ADV	_	3 sleep	advmod
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 years	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 years	det
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sleep	obl
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 grows	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 grows	nsubj
10	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sleep	advcl
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 grows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	would	They				year	all property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	grow back	present	it						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nothing, pandas do not eat bamboo

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	pandas	panda	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 eat	advmod
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	conj
7	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	present · do-support	pandas	bamboo					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bamboo=Patient

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