Test 6 · ★ · Insects as food in other countries

What would happen if a farmer swapped fish caught at sea for soldier fly larvae to feed his farmed fish?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farmer · What happens: happen, swap, catch, fly, feed, farm · To what, where: farmer, sea, larvae, farmed fish

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 290 «Insects as food in other countries» 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	_	14 fly	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 farmer	det
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fly	nsubj
7	swapped	swap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 fish	amod
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 farmer	conj
9	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 farmer	acl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 sea	case
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 caught	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 soldier	case
13	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 caught	obl:agent
14	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
15	larvae	larva	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fly	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 feed	mark
17	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fly	advcl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 fish	nmod:poss
19	farmed	farm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 fish	amod
20	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 feed	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	swap	participle					vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme
3	catch	participle		a farmer and swapped fish not said here		sea	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent at sea=Asset
4	fly a condition, not said to happen	present	a farmer and swapped fish	larvae			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location larva=Theme
5	feed	to-infinitive	a farmer and swapped fish not said here		fish's farmed fish		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Recipient
6	farm	participle					vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

The larvae would eat the fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 larvae	det
2	larvae	larva	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fish	det
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Fewer wild fish would be caught for feed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 fish	amod
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fish	amod
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 caught	nsubj:pass
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 caught	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 caught	aux:pass
6	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 feed	case
8	feed	feed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 caught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	would · passive		Fewer wild fish				for feed	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for feed=Beneficiary

Option 3

The farmed fish would starve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fish	det
2	farmed	farm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fish	amod
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 starve	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 starve	aux
5	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	farm	participle							vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	starve	would	the farmed fish						tree rules

Option 4

The sea would get emptier of wild fish faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	emptier	empty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 get	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 fish	case
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fish	amod
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 emptier	obl
9	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the sea					empty, fast property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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