Test 5 · ★★★ · Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and…

What would happen to Antarctic penguins, seals and whales if the krill disappeared?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: krill · What happens: happen, disappear

This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 170 «Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins» 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 penguins	case
5	Antarctic	antarctic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 penguins	amod
6	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 seals	punct
8	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 penguins	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 whales	cc
10	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 penguins	conj
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 disappeared	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 krill	det
13	krill	krill	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 disappeared	nsubj
14	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to Antarctic penguins and seals and whales	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	disappear a condition, not said to happen	participle	the krill						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

They would all move to the Arctic and live there instead

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	4 move	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 move	aux
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 move	advmod
4	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 Arctic	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Arctic	det
7	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 move	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 live	cc
9	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 move	conj
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 live	advmod
11	instead	instead	ADV	_	9 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	would	They					to the Arctic result; all property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to arctic=Result
2	live	infinitive	They not said here			there		instead property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They would eat more polar bears

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 eat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 polar	advmod
5	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bears	amod
6	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would	They	polar bears					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Patient

Option 3

Nothing, because none of them ever eat krill

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 eat	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 eat	mark
4	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	8 eat	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 none	nmod
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 eat	advmod
8	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	parataxis
9	krill	krill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	none	krill			ever		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent krill=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Many would lose their main food and could starve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lose	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 food	nmod:poss
5	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 food	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 starve	cc
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 starve	aux
9	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lose	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	Many	their main food					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Eventuality
2	starve	could	Many not said here						tree rules

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