Test 2 · ★ · Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature

What would happen if condors were released while ranchers still left lead bullets in carcasses?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ranchers · What happens: happen, release, leave · To what, where: condors, lead bullets, carcasses

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 114 «Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature» 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	_	7 released	mark
5	condors	condor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 released	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 released	aux:pass
7	released	release	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 left	mark
9	ranchers	rancher	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 left	nsubj
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 left	advmod
11	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 released	advcl
12	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bullets	compound
13	bullets	bullet	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 left	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 carcasses	case
15	carcasses	carcass	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 left	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	release a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		condors			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source
3	leave	past	ranchers	lead bullets	carcasses	still	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bullet=Theme in carcass=Location

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 condors would learn to avoid bullets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 condors	det
2	condors	condor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 avoid	mark
6	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 learn	xcomp
7	bullets	bullet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 avoid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	the condors						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	avoid	to-infinitive	the condors not said here	bullets					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent bullet=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Many condors would be poisoned again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 condors	amod
2	condors	condor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 poisoned	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 poisoned	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 poisoned	aux:pass
5	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 poisoned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poison	would · passive		Many condors			again		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

Nothing, as lead is harmless to birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 harmless	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 lead	case
4	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 harmless	cop
6	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 birds	case
8	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 harmless	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					to birds; harmless property	tree rules

Option 4

The lead would make them fly much higher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lead	det
2	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	obj
6	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 higher	advmod
8	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	the lead	them = they				high property	tree rules
2	fly	infinitive	them = they not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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