Test 11 · ★★ · Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monk…

What would happen if a whole town used bear-proof bins?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: whole town · What happens: happen, use · To what, where: proof bins

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 368 «Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monkeys and leopards» 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	_	7 town	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 town	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 town	amod
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	conj
8	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 town	acl
9	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 proof	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 bear	punct
11	proof	proof	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bins	amod
12	bins	bin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 used	obj
13	?	?	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	use	participle	a whole town not said here	proof bins					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bin=Patient

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 would change, because bears never eat rubbish

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	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eat	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 eat	mark
6	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eat	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 eat	advmod
8	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 change	conj
9	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not eat	present	bears	rubbish					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rubbish=Patient

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

Bears would find less food in town and come less often

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 find	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 town	case
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 come	cc
9	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 find	conj
10	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 often	advmod
11	often	often	ADV	_	9 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	Bears	less food		town			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic
2	come	present	Bears not said here					often property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Bears would learn to open the locks and drive cars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 learn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 learn	aux
3	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 open	mark
5	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 learn	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 locks	det
7	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 open	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 drive	cc
9	drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 learn	conj
10	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 drive	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	learn	would	Bears		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	open	to-infinitive	Bears not said here	the locks	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lock=Theme
3	drive	present	Bears not said here	cars	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme car=Trajectory

Option 4

Bears would move into houses instead of bins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 move	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 move	aux
3	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 houses	case
5	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 move	obl
6	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	8 bins	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 instead	fixed
8	bins	bin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	would	Bears			houses		instead bins	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into house=Trajectory

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