Test 3 · ★ · Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern…

What would happen if no squirrel or jay ever forgot an acorn?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: squirrel · What happens: happen, forget · To what, where: acorn

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 12 «Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest» 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	_	10 forgot	mark
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 squirrel	det
6	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 forgot	nsubj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 jay	cc
8	jay	jay	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 squirrel	conj
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 forgot	advmod
10	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 acorn	det
12	acorn	acorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 forgot	obj
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	forget a condition, not said to happen	past	no squirrel or jay	a acorn			ever		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

Nothing, oaks never grow from acorns, only from cuttings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 oaks	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 grow	advmod
5	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 acorns	case
7	acorns	acorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cuttings	punct
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 cuttings	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 cuttings	case
11	cuttings	cutting	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not grow	present	Nothing oaks					from cuttings; from acorns	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from acorn=Patient

Option 2

Oak trees would grow much faster than before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oak	oak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 trees	amod
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 faster	advmod
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 before	case
8	before	before	ADV	_	6 faster	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	Oak trees					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Squirrels would starve in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 starve	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 starve	aux
3	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 winter	case
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 starve	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	would	Squirrels				winter		tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Fewer new oaks would grow far from the old trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 oaks	amod
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 oaks	amod
3	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grow	aux
5	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 grow	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 trees	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trees	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 trees	amod
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	Fewer new oaks					from the old trees; far property	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from tree=Patient

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