Test 2 · Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen…

What would happen to a small group of animals if it bred only among itself for many generations?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: group · What happens: happen, breed

This is test 2 of lesson 113 «Breeding programmes for rare animals: studbooks and frozen zoos» 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	_	7 group	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 group	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 group	amod
7	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 animals	case
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 group	nmod
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 bred	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bred	nsubj
12	bred	breed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
13	only	only	ADV	_	15 itself	advmod
14	among	among	ADP	_	15 itself	case
15	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 bred	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 generations	case
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 generations	amod
18	generations	generation	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bred	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a small group of animals	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	breed a condition, not said to happen	past	group				for many generations	among group	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

It would lose genes and become less able to cope with disease

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 lose	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	genes	gene	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lose	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 become	cc
6	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	conj
7	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 able	advmod
8	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 become	xcomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 cope	mark
10	cope	cope	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 able	xcomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 disease	case
12	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cope	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lose	would	It	genes		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gene=Eventuality
2	become	present			able property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	cope	to-infinitive			with disease	vn cope-83-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with disease=Theme

Option 2

It would gain lots of new genes every year from its own members

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 gain	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 gain	aux
3	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gain	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 genes	case
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 genes	amod
7	genes	gene	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lots	nmod
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gain	obl:unmarked
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 members	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 members	nmod:poss
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 members	amod
13	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gain	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gain	would	It	lots of new genes		its own members	year		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent lot=Theme from member=Source

Option 3

It would become a bigger species

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 species	det
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 species	amod
6	species	species	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 become	xcomp

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

Option 4

Nothing would ever change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 change	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 change	advmod
4	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing				ever		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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