Test 5 · ★★ · Australia's venomous animals and why few people die

What would happen if no antivenom for funnel-webs existed?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: antivenom · What happens: happen, exist

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 166 «Australia's venomous animals and why few people die» 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	_	11 existed	mark
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 antivenom	det
6	antivenom	antivenom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 existed	nsubj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 webs	case
8	funnel	funnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 webs	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 funnel	punct
10	webs	web	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 antivenom	nmod
11	existed	exist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
12	?	?	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	exist a condition, not said to happen	participle	no antivenom for funnel webs						vn exist-47.1 «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

Everyone would be safe anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 safe	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 safe	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 safe	cop
4	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 safe	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Everyone					anyway, safe property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Funnel-webs would just stop biting people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Funnel	funnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 webs	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Funnel	punct
3	webs	web	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stop	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stop	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 stop	advmod
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	biting	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 stop	xcomp
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 biting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	Funnel webs						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	bite	gerund	Funnel webs not said here	people					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Some bites might be deadly again, as before 1981

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 bites	det
2	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 deadly	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 deadly	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 deadly	cop
5	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 deadly	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 deadly	punct
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 1981	case
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 1981	case
10	1981	1981	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 deadly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	some bites				again	as 1981; deadly property	tree rules

Option 4

Nothing, because the bite was never dangerous anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dangerous	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 dangerous	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bite	det
5	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dangerous	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dangerous	cop
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 dangerous	advmod
8	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	acl
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	8 dangerous	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the bite					anyway, dangerous property	tree rules

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