Test 7 · ★ · The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart fr…

What would happen if harpy eagles vanished from a forest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: harpy eagles · What happens: happen, vanish · To what, where: forest

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 156 «The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens» 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 vanished	mark
5	harpy	harpy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eagles	compound
6	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 vanished	nsubj
7	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 forest	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 forest	det
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 vanished	obl
11	?	?	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	vanish a condition, not said to happen	past	harpy eagles			a forest			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

There could be more sloths and monkeys eating the leaves and fruit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 be	expl
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 sloths	amod
5	sloths	sloth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 be	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 monkeys	cc
7	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sloths	conj
8	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 sloths	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 leaves	det
10	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eating	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fruit	cc
12	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leaves	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	can	could	more sloths and monkeys			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	gerund	more sloths and monkeys not said here	the leaves and fruit					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient

Option 2

The forest would lose all its trees at once and turn into a desert

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 forest	det
2	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lose	aux
4	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 trees	det:predet
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 trees	nmod:poss
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lose	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 lose	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 turn	cc
11	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lose	conj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 desert	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 desert	det
14	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	the forest	forest's trees					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Eventuality
2	turn	present	the forest not said here			a desert			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into desert=Trajectory

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

The howlers would stop roaring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 howlers	det
2	howlers	howler	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	roaring	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	the howlers						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	roar	gerund	the howlers not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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