Test 10 · The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans

What would happen to orangutan numbers if a forest is cut and only a few mothers survive?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: few mothers · What happens: happen, cut, survive · To what, where: forest

This is test 10 of lesson 16 «The great apes: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans» 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	_	6 numbers	case
5	orangutan	orangutan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 numbers	compound
6	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 cut	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cut	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cut	aux:pass
11	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 survive	cc
13	only	only	ADV	_	17 survive	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 mothers	det
15	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mothers	amod
16	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 survive	nsubj
17	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 cut	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would			to orangutan numbers	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cut a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		a forest		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
3	survive	infinitive	a few mothers			vn exist-47.1-1 «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

They would grow back from seeds

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	back	back	ADV	_	3 grow	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 seeds	case
6	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow back	would	They					from seeds	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from seed=Patient

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

Numbers would recover very slowly, as each baby takes about 8 years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 recover	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 recover	aux
3	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 slowly	advmod
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 recover	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 takes	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 takes	mark
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 baby	det
9	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 takes	nsubj
10	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 recover	parataxis
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 8	advmod
12	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 takes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recover	would	Numbers					slowly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	take	present	each baby				year		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They would recover in one summer, as orangutans have many babies at once

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 recover	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 recover	aux
3	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 summer	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 summer	nummod
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 recover	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 have	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 have	mark
9	orangutans	orangutan	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 recover	parataxis
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 babies	amod
12	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 have	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recover	would	They				summer		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	orangutans	many babies					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Patient

Option 4

They would double every year

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 double	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 double	aux
3	double	double	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 double	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	double	would	They				year		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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