Test 10 · White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey…

What would happen if a big rubbish dump near a stork route closed?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, close · To what, where: big rubbish dump

This is test 10 of lesson 375 «White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey to Africa» 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	_	13 closed	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dump	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dump	amod
7	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dump	compound
8	dump	dump	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 closed	nsubj:pass
9	near	near	ADP	_	12 route	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 route	det
11	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 route	compound
12	route	route	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dump	nmod
13	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
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	close a condition, not said to happen	participle · passive		a big rubbish dump near a stork route					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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

Storks would start eating rubbish at sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	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	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eating	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 sea	case
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eating	obl

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Storks that ate there might start flying to Africa again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 start	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Storks	acl:relcl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 ate	advmod
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 start	aux
6	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 start	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Africa	case
9	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 flying	obl
10	again	again	ADV	_	7 flying	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	eat	past	Storks		there		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	start	might	Storks				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	fly	gerund	Storks not said here	Africa		again	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to africa=Result

Option 3

All storks would die at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 storks	det
2	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 die	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 die	aux
4	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 die	obl

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Storks would stop flying at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 flying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	Storks						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	fly	gerund	Storks not said here			all			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

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