Test 9 · The city as a habitat

What would happen to bees in a city with no gardens, parks or green roofs?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: happen · To what, where: city

This is test 9 of lesson 14 «The city as a habitat» 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	_	5 bees	case
5	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 city	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 city	det
8	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 gardens	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 gardens	det
11	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 city	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 parks	punct
13	parks	park	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gardens	conj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 roofs	cc
15	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 roofs	amod
16	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gardens	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				a city with no gardens and parks or green roofs		to bees	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in city=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

They would eat sugar from cafés and do even better than before

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 eat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 cafés	case
6	cafés	café	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 better	cc
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 better	aux
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 better	advmod
10	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 eat	conj
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 before	case
12	before	before	ADV	_	10 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would	They	sugar		cafés			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient

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

They would find far less food and become fewer

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 find	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 less	advmod
5	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 food	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 become	cc
8	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 find	conj
9	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	They	less food					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic
2	become	infinitive	They not said here					few property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Nothing, bees need no flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 need	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 flowers	det
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	bees	no flowers				Nothing vocative	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot flower=Theme

Option 4

They would turn into wasps

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 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 wasps	case
5	wasps	wasp	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	They			wasps			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into wasp=Trajectory

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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