Test 8 · ★★ · The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conser…

What would happen to a meadow if all its bees vanished?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bees · What happens: happen, vanish

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 300 «The big biology quiz, part 3: dinosaurs, evolution, conservation and 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 meadow	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 meadow	det
6	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 vanished	mark
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 bees	det:predet
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bees	nmod:poss
10	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 vanished	nsubj
11	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a meadow	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	vanish a condition, not said to happen	participle	meadow's bees						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

Flowers would grow much bigger without bees taking their nectar every single day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 bigger	advmod
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	xcomp
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	8 taking	mark
7	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 taking	nsubj
8	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 grow	advcl
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 nectar	nmod:poss
10	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taking	obj
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
12	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 taking	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	Flowers					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	gerund	bees	bees's nectar			day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nectar=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Many flowers would make no fruit or seeds, and fewer plants would grow back

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 flowers	amod
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 fruit	det
6	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 seeds	cc
8	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fruit	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grow	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 grow	cc
11	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 plants	amod
12	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 grow	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 grow	aux
14	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	conj
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	Many flowers	no fruit or seeds					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fruit=Product
2	grow back	would	fewer plants						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The grass would turn into flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 grass	det
2	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 flowers	case
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	obl

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

Option 4

Nothing, flowers do not need bees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 flowers	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 need	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 need	advmod
6	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present · do-support	Nothing flowers	bees					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bee=Theme

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