Test 5 · The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fis…

What would happen if the floods stopped coming to the Amazon forest?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: floods · What happens: happen, stop, come · To what, where: Amazon forest

This is test 5 of lesson 155 «The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas» 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	_	7 stopped	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 floods	det
6	floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stopped	nsubj
7	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stopped	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 forest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 forest	det
11	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 forest	compound
12	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coming	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop a condition, not said to happen	past	the floods		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	come	gerund	the floods not said here	the Amazon forest	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_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

The river would get much deeper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 river	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 deeper	advmod
6	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the river					deep property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

More fish would move up to live in the tree tops instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 fish	amod
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 move	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 move	aux
4	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 move	compound:prt
6	to	to	PART	_	7 live	mark
7	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 move	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 tops	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tops	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tops	compound
11	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 live	obl
12	instead	instead	ADV	_	7 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move up	would	More fish						tree rules
2	live	to-infinitive	More fish not said here			the tree tops		instead property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in top=Location

Option 3

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

Fish could no longer feed on fruit and spread seeds, and many trees and fish would suffer

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feed	obl:unmarked
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 feed	aux
3	no	no	ADV	_	4 longer	advmod
4	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 feed	advmod
5	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 fruit	case
7	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 spread	cc
9	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 feed	conj
10	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 spread	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 suffer	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 suffer	cc
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 trees	amod
14	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 suffer	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fish	cc
16	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 trees	conj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 suffer	aux
18	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 feed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feed	could		Fish	on fruit; long property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on fruit=Patient
2	spread	present		seeds		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seed=Theme
3	suffer	would	many trees and fish			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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