Test 11 · Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower…

If Borneo's forest were cleared, what would happen to animals like orangutans that live nowhere else?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: orangutans · What happens: clear, happen, live · To what, where: forest

This is test 11 of lesson 161 «Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes» 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 cleared	mark
2	Borneo	Borneo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 forest	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Borneo	case
4	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cleared	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cleared	aux:pass
6	cleared	clear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 happen	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cleared	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 happen	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 happen	aux
10	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 animals	case
12	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 happen	obl
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 orangutans	case
14	orangutans	orangutan	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 animals	nmod
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 live	nsubj
16	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 orangutans	acl:relcl
17	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 live	advmod
18	else	else	ADV	_	17 nowhere	advmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	clear a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		Borneo's forest		vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
2	happen	would			to animals like orangutans	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	live	present	orangutans		nowhere property	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 · ← Mova's choice

They would turn into new kinds of animals at once and live on the ground

The tree, 15 words

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	_	6 kinds	case
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kinds	amod
6	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 animals	case
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 kinds	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 turn	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 live	cc
12	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 ground	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ground	det
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	They			new kinds of animals			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into kind=Source at once=Trajectory
2	live	present	They not said here			the ground			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Location

Option 2

They would move to the Arctic

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 move	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 move	aux
3	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Arctic	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Arctic	det
6	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	would	They					to the Arctic result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to arctic=Result

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They would have nowhere else to go and could die out

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 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 have	advmod
5	else	else	ADV	_	4 nowhere	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nowhere	acl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 die	cc
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 die	aux
10	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 die	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	have	would	They	nowhere property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	go	to-infinitive			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	die out	could	They not said here		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

Nothing, they live in cities too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 live	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 live	nsubj
4	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 cities	case
6	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	obl
7	too	too	ADV	_	4 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	they			cities		Nothing vocative	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location

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