Test 3 · ★ · The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flyin…

What would happen to the aphids if all the ladybirds in a garden disappeared?

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

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 334 «The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day» 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 aphids	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 aphids	det
6	aphids	aphid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 disappeared	mark
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 ladybirds	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ladybirds	det
10	ladybirds	ladybird	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 disappeared	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 garden	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 garden	det
13	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ladybirds	nmod
14	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to the aphids	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	disappear a condition, not said to happen	participle	all ladybirds in a garden						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

Their numbers would grow even faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 numbers	nmod:poss
2	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 faster	advmod
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	Their numbers					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They would slowly turn into ladybirds

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	4 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 ladybirds	case
6	ladybirds	ladybird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	They			ladybirds		slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into ladybird=Trajectory

Option 3

Nothing would change in the garden at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 garden	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 garden	det
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 change	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing			the garden		at all	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They would all die out without ladybirds

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	4 die	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 die	aux
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 die	advmod
4	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 die	compound:prt
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 ladybirds	case
7	ladybirds	ladybird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die out	would	They					without ladybirds; all property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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