Test 5 · ★★★ · Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food

What would happen to an orchard if every bee and pollinator vanished?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bee · What happens: happen, vanish

This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 291 «Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food» 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 orchard	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 orchard	det
6	orchard	orchard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 vanished	mark
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 bee	det
9	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 vanished	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pollinator	cc
11	pollinator	pollinator	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bee	conj
12	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a orchard	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	vanish a condition, not said to happen	participle	every bee and pollinator						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 · ✓ the right answer

Very little fruit would form unless people pollinated by hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 little	advmod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fruit	amod
3	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 form	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 form	aux
5	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	7 people	case
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 form	obl
8	pollinated	pollinate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 people	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 hand	case
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pollinated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form	would	little fruit					unless people	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pollinate	participle		people not said here				by hand	tree rules

Option 2

The trees would make more fruit, since no bees would steal the nectar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trees	det
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 fruit	amod
6	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 steal	punct
8	since	since	SCONJ	_	12 steal	mark
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 bees	det
10	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 steal	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 steal	aux
12	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 nectar	det
14	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 steal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	the trees	more fruit					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fruit=Product
2	steal	would	no bees	the nectar					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nectar=Theme

Option 3

The apples would grow on the roots instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 apples	det
2	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 roots	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 roots	det
7	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	obl
8	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	the apples			the roots		instead property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on root=Location

Option 4

Nothing at all, because the wind does all of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 does	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 does	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wind	det
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 does	nsubj
8	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	advcl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 does	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	the wind	all					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality

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