Test 7 · Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the pl…

What would happen if there were no antivenom?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: antivenom · What happens: happen, be

This is test 7 of lesson 246 «Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus» 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	_	6 were	mark
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 were	expl
6	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 antivenom	det
8	antivenom	antivenom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 were	nsubj
9	?	?	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	be a condition, not said to happen	past	no antivenom			there			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

Horses would become venomous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 become	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 become	aux
3	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	venomous	venomous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	Horses					venomous property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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

Many more people bitten by snakes would die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 die	nsubj
4	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 people	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 snakes	case
6	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bitten	obl
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 die	aux
8	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	participle		Many more people not said here				by snakes	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	die	would	Many more people						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

Snakes would stop being venomous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 venomous	cop
5	venomous	venomous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	Snakes						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	gerund	Snakes not said here					venomous property	tree rules

Option 4

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

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