Test 6 · ★ · The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest…

What would happen to many big trees if forest elephants disappeared?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: forest elephants · What happens: happen, disappear

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 159 «The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest elephants» 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 trees	case
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trees	amod
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trees	amod
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 disappeared	mark
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 elephants	compound
10	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 disappeared	nsubj
11	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to many big trees	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	disappear a condition, not said to happen	participle	forest elephants						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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Their seeds would be spread much less, so fewer new trees would grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 seeds	nmod:poss
2	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spread	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 spread	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 spread	aux:pass
5	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 less	advmod
7	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 spread	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grow	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	14 grow	advmod
10	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 trees	amod
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 trees	amod
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 grow	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 grow	aux
14	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 spread	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	would · passive		Their seeds				less property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	grow	would	fewer new trees						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They would spread seeds by walking

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 spread	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	aux
3	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spread	obj
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 walking	mark
6	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 spread	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	would	They	seeds					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seed=Theme
2	walk	gerund	They not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nothing would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	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

They would grow faster without elephants walking about and eating their fruit

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	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	advmod
5	without	without	ADP	_	6 elephants	case
6	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obl
7	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 elephants	acl
8	about	about	ADV	_	7 walking	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 eating	cc
10	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 walking	conj
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 fruit	nmod:poss
12	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	would	They		without elephants; fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	walk	gerund	elephants not said here		about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	eat	gerund	elephants not said here	elephants's fruit		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient

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