Test 8 · Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and As…

What would happen to the steppe eagles if all souslik colonies disappeared?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: souslik colonies · What happens: happen, disappear

This is test 8 of lesson 373 «Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova» 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 eagles	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eagles	det
6	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eagles	compound
7	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 disappeared	mark
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 colonies	det
10	souslik	souslik	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 colonies	compound
11	colonies	colony	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 disappeared	nsubj
12	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happen	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

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

Nothing would change for them

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	for	for	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 change	obl

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

Option 2

They would start eating grass

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	3 start	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 start	aux
3	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 start	xcomp
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	They						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund	They not said here	grass					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient

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

They would lose a main food and disappear too

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	3 lose	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 food	det
5	main	main	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 food	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 disappear	cc
8	disappear	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	conj
9	too	too	ADV	_	8 disappear	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	They	a main food					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Eventuality
2	disappear	present	They not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They would be happier with more space

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 happier	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happier	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happier	cop
4	happier	happy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 space	case
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 space	amod
7	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happier	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	They					with more space; happy property	tree rules

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