Test 4 · ★★ · Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and gi…

What would happen to many trees if all the fungi in the soil suddenly vanished?

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

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 252 «Plants deeper: do trees talk? Fungi, warning smells and giant clones» 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 trees	case
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trees	amod
6	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 vanished	mark
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 fungi	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fungi	det
10	fungi	fungus	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 vanished	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 soil	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 soil	det
13	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fungi	nmod
14	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	15 vanished	advmod
15	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to many trees	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	vanish a condition, not said to happen	participle	all fungi in the soil					suddenly property	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 · ✓ the right answer

They would struggle to get enough water and minerals

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 struggle	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 struggle	aux
3	struggle	struggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 get	mark
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 struggle	xcomp
6	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 minerals	cc
9	minerals	mineral	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 water	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	struggle	would	They						tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive	They not said here	enough water and minerals					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus

Option 2

Nothing at all would change for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing					for them = they	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They would start to eat insects 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	3 start	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 start	aux
3	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 start	xcomp
6	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obj
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	5 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	They						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat	to-infinitive	They not said here	insects				instead property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They would grow twice as fast

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	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 grow	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	They					fast, twice property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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