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Test 11 · ★ · Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nat…

A farm that was hard to farm is left wild. What might happen, as at Knepp?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farm · What happens: be, leave, happen · To what, where: farm

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 283 «Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature back» 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

Sentence 1: A farm that was hard to farm is left wild.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 farm	det
2	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 left	nsubj:pass
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 hard	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hard	cop
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 farm	acl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 farm	mark
7	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hard	advcl
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 left	aux:pass
9	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 left	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 left	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	a farm					hard property	tree rules
2	leave	present · passive		a farm				wild property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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.

Sentence 2: What might happen, as at Knepp?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Knepp	punct
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 Knepp	case
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 Knepp	case
7	Knepp	Knepp	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	might						as Knepp	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It would turn into a desert

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing 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 desert	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 desert	det
6	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It			a desert			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into desert=Trajectory

Option 2

It would fill up with lions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fill	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fill	aux
3	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 fill	compound:prt
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 lions	case
6	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill up	would	It					with lions	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with lion=Instrument

Option 3

All the animals would leave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 animals	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 animals	det
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 leave	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 leave	aux
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	would	all animals						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Missing birds like nightingales and turtle doves might come back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 birds	amod
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 come	nsubj
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 nightingales	case
4	nightingales	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 birds	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 doves	cc
6	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doves	compound
7	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 birds	conj
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
9	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	might	Missing birds like nightingales and turtle doves						vn escape-51.1-1 «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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