Test 8 · Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world

What would happen to polar bears if there were much less sea ice for longer each year?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, be · To what, where: sea ice

This is test 8 of lesson 319 «Bears by kind: the eight bears of the world» 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 bears	case
5	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bears	amod
6	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 were	mark
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 were	expl
9	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
10	much	much	ADV	_	11 less	advmod
11	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 ice	advmod
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ice	compound
13	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 year	case
15	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 year	advmod
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 year	det
17	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ice	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would		sea ice for each year				to polar bears	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be a condition, not said to happen	past				there			vn exist-47.1 «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

They would hunt seals much more easily from the land

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 hunt	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hunt	aux
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hunt	obj
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 more	advmod
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 easily	advmod
7	easily	easily	ADV	_	3 hunt	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 land	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 land	det
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hunt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	would	They	seals		the land		easily property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Theme

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

They would swim further and go hungry longer

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 swim	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 swim	aux
3	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 swim	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 go	cc
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 swim	conj
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 go	xcomp
8	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	would	They					far property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	infinitive	They not said here					hungry, long property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They would grow gills

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	gills	gill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	They	gills					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gill=Theme

Option 4

Nothing, they eat mainly grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 eat	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	mainly	mainly	ADV	_	4 eat	advmod
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	they	grass				Nothing vocative; mainly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient

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