Test 11 · ★★ · The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life

If lions disappeared from a savanna, what might happen to the grass?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: lions, savanna · What happens: disappear, happen · To what, where: savanna

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 124 «The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life» 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 disappeared	mark
2	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 disappeared	nsubj
3	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 savanna	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 savanna	det
6	savanna	savanna	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 disappeared	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 happen	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 happen	nsubj
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 happen	aux
10	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 savanna	acl:relcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 grass	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 grass	det
13	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 happen	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 disappeared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disappear	participle	lions			a savanna			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from savanna=Initial_Location
2	happen	might	a savanna					to the grass	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 would change at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 change	obl

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

Option 2

The grass would turn into thick trees and bushes within a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 grass	det
2	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 trees	case
6	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trees	amod
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bushes	cc
9	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 trees	conj
10	within	within	ADP	_	12 year	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 year	det
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the grass			thick trees and bushes	year		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into tree=Trajectory

Option 3

The grass would stop needing rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 grass	det
2	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	needing	need	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 needing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	the grass						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	need	gerund	the grass not said here	rain					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rain=Theme

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

Antelopes could grow in number and eat much more of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Antelopes	antelope	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 number	case
5	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 eat	cc
7	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	conj
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 eat	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 more	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	could	Antelopes			number			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in number=Location
2	eat	present	Antelopes not said here	more of number					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient

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