Test 6 · ★★ · Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa

What would happen to some Madagascar plants if their nectar-drinking lemurs disappeared?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: drinking lemurs · What happens: happen, drink, disappear

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 127 «Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa» 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 plants	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 plants	det
6	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 plants	compound
7	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 disappeared	mark
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 lemurs	nmod:poss
10	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drinking	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 nectar	punct
12	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 lemurs	amod
13	lemurs	lemur	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 disappeared	nsubj
14	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would		to some Madagascar plants	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drink	gerund			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	disappear a condition, not said to happen	participle	plants's drinking lemurs		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 at all would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Fewer of their flowers would be pollinated

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 flowers	amod
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 flowers	case
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 flowers	nmod:poss
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pollinated	nsubj:pass
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 pollinated	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 pollinated	aux:pass
7	pollinated	pollinate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pollinate	would · passive		their Fewer flowers					tree rules

Option 3

They would grow much faster and bigger without lemurs

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 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 faster	advmod
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bigger	cc
7	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 faster	conj
8	without	without	ADP	_	9 lemurs	case
9	lemurs	lemur	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	They					without lemurs; fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They would grow fur

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 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	They	fur					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fur=Theme

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