Test 8 · ★★ · Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, humming…

What would happen if all the jays in a wood vanished?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: jays · What happens: happen, vanish

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 35 «Birds of every kind: penguins, ostriches, parrots, hummingbirds, songbirds, crows» 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	_	11 vanished	mark
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 jays	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 jays	det
7	jays	jay	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 vanished	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 wood	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wood	det
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jays	nmod
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							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	vanish a condition, not said to happen	participle	all jays in a wood						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

The oak trees would all die at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trees	det
2	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trees	compound
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 die	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 die	aux
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 die	advmod
6	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	would	the oak trees					all property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

There would be more acorns in the trees forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 be	expl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 acorns	amod
5	acorns	acorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 be	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 trees	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trees	det
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 be	obl
9	forever	forever	ADV	_	3 be	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	would	more acorns			the trees; there		forever property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Fewer new oak trees would be planted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 trees	amod
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trees	amod
3	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trees	compound
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 planted	nsubj:pass
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 planted	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 planted	aux:pass
7	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant	would · passive		Fewer new oak trees					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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