Test 6 · Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumbleb…

What would happen to wild banana plants in a forest if all the nectar bats vanished?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: nectar bats · What happens: happen, vanish · To what, where: forest

This is test 6 of lesson 314 «Bats of the world: flying foxes, vampire bats, the bumblebee bat and tent-makers» 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	_	7 plants	case
5	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plants	amod
6	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plants	compound
7	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 forest	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 forest	det
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 vanished	mark
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 bats	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bats	det
14	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bats	compound
15	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 vanished	nsubj
16	vanished	vanish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				a forest		to wild banana plants	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in forest=Location
2	vanish a condition, not said to happen	participle	all nectar bats						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

Nothing, bananas need only rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 bananas	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 rain	advmod
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Nothing bananas	rain					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rain=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Fewer of their flowers would be pollinated, so fewer seeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 flowers	amod
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 flowers	case
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 flowers	nmod:poss
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pollinated	nsubj:pass
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 pollinated	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 pollinated	aux:pass
7	pollinated	pollinate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seeds	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 fewer	advmod
10	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 seeds	amod
11	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pollinated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pollinate	would · passive		their Fewer flowers				fewer seeds obl	tree rules

Option 3

They would turn into trees with no fruit at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur 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	_	5 trees	case
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 fruit	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 fruit	det
8	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	They			trees		with no fruit; at all	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into tree=Source at all=Trajectory

Option 4

They would grow twice as fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 grow	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	They					fast, twice property	vn appear-48.1.1 «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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