Test 11 · Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas,…

What would happen to the sea floor if there were no scavengers like hagfish?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: scavengers · What happens: happen, be

This is test 11 of lesson 366 «Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish» 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 floor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 floor	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 floor	compound
7	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 were	mark
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 were	expl
10	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 scavengers	det
12	scavengers	scavenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 were	nsubj
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 hagfish	case
14	hagfish	hagfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 scavengers	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to the sea floor	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be a condition, not said to happen	past	no scavengers like hagfish			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 · ← Mova's choice

Many more sharks would be born every single year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sharks	amod
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 sharks	amod
3	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 born	nsubj:pass
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 born	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 born	aux:pass
6	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 year	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 year	amod
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 born	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	would · passive		Many more sharks			year		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

The water near the bottom would freeze into ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 freeze	nsubj
3	near	near	ADP	_	5 bottom	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bottom	det
5	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 water	nmod
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 freeze	aux
7	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 ice	case
9	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 freeze	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	would	the water near the bottom			ice			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

The sea water would slowly become sweeter and less salty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 water	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 water	compound
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 become	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 become	aux
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	6 become	advmod
6	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 become	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 salty	cc
9	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 salty	advmod
10	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sweeter	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	the sea water					slowly, sweet property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Dead whales and fish would take much longer to be cleaned up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 whales	amod
2	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 take	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 fish	cc
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 whales	conj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 longer	advmod
8	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 take	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	11 cleaned	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 cleaned	aux:pass
11	cleaned	clean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 take	advcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 cleaned	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	would	Dead whales and fish					long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	clean up	to-infinitive · passive	Dead whales and fish not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»

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