Test 11 · ★ · Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshop…

What would happen if a swarm of desert locusts landed on a farm?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: swarm · What happens: happen, land · To what, where: farm

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 37 «Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers» 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	_	10 landed	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 swarm	det
6	swarm	swarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 landed	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 locusts	case
8	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 locusts	compound
9	locusts	locust	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swarm	nmod
10	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 farm	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 farm	det
13	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 landed	obl
14	?	?	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	land a condition, not said to happen	past	a swarm of desert locusts			a farm			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on farm=Destination

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

It would pollinate the crops and make them grow better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pollinate	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pollinate	aux
3	pollinate	pollinate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crops	det
5	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pollinate	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 make	cc
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pollinate	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 make	obj
9	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	xcomp
10	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pollinate	would	It	the crops		tree rules
2	make	infinitive		crops = crop		tree rules
3	grow	infinitive	crops = crop not said here		well property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It would only eat the weeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 eat	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 weeds	det
6	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would	It	the weeds					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weed=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It could eat the crops in a very short time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eat	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crops	det
5	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 time	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 time	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 short	advmod
9	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	could	It	the crops			time		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Patient

Option 4

It would help the crops grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 help	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 help	aux
3	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crops	det
5	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grow	nsubj
6	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 help	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	would	It						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	grow	present	the crops						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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