Test 9 · ★★ · Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes

What would happen if every forest in a tiger's huge range were cut down?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, cut down · To what, where: forest

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 136 «Kung Fu Panda: real tigers and cranes» 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	_	14 cut	mark
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 forest	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cut	nsubj:pass
7	in	in	ADP	_	12 range	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tiger	det
9	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 range	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 tiger	case
11	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 range	amod
12	range	range	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forest	nmod
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cut	aux:pass
14	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 cut	compound:prt
16	?	?	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	cut down a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		every forest in a tiger's huge range					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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 · ✓ the right answer

The tiger and many other animals living there would lose their home and food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tiger	det
2	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lose	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 animals	cc
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animals	amod
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animals	amod
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tiger	conj
7	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 animals	acl
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 living	advmod
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 lose	aux
10	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 home	nmod:poss
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lose	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 food	cc
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 home	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	gerund	many other animals not said here			there			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lose	would	the tiger and many other animals	tiger's home and food					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Eventuality

Option 2

Nothing, tigers do not need forests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 tigers	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 need	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 need	advmod
6	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present · do-support	Nothing tigers	forests					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot forest=Theme

Option 3

Tigers would start eating grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 start	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 start	aux
3	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 start	xcomp
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	Tigers						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund	Tigers not said here	grass					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Tigers would just learn to live in the cities and eat from people's rubbish bins

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tigers	tiger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 learn	advmod
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 live	mark
6	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 learn	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 cities	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cities	det
9	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 live	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 eat	cc
11	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	conj
12	from	from	ADP	_	16 bins	case
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 bins	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 people	case
15	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bins	compound
16	bins	bin	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	learn	would	Tigers		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	live	to-infinitive	Tigers not said here	the cities	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location
3	eat	present	Tigers not said here	people's rubbish bins	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from bin=Source

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