Test 10 · ★★ · Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read t…

What would happen if the Asian giant hornet had not been found and stopped in North America?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, not find, stop · To what, where: Asian giant hornet

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 296 «Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them» 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	_	12 found	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hornet	det
6	Asian	Asian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hornet	amod
7	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hornet	amod
8	hornet	hornet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 found	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 found	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 found	advmod
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 found	aux:pass
12	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stopped	cc
14	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 found	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 America	case
16	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 America	compound
17	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 stopped	obl:agent
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not find a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive	the Asian giant hornet	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	stop	participle		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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

It would have slowly turned into a friendly bee

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	5 turned	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 turned	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 turned	aux
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 turned	advmod
5	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 bee	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bee	det
8	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bee	amod
9	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would · perfect	It					into a friendly bee result; slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into bee=Result

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It would have made more honey

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	4 made	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	aux
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 honey	amod
6	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would · perfect · passive		It					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary honey=Product

Option 3

Nothing, hornets cannot live in cold places

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 hornets	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	hornets	hornet	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 live	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 live	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 live	advmod
6	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 places	case
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 places	amod
9	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not live	can	Nothing hornets			cold places			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It could have spread and killed many honeybees, as invaders often do

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	4 spread	nsubj:pass
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 spread	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 spread	aux
4	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 killed	cc
6	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spread	conj
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 honeybees	amod
8	honeybees	honeybee	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 killed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 do	mark
11	invaders	invader	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 do	nsubj
12	often	often	ADV	_	13 do	advmod
13	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 spread	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spread	could · perfect · passive		It		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	kill	past		many honeybees		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honeybee=Theme
3	do	present	invaders		often property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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