Test 7 · White storks: Ukraine's favourite birds and their journey…

What would happen if all the wet meadows near a village were drained and paved?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, drain, pave · To what, where: wet meadows

This is test 7 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 drained	mark
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 meadows	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 meadows	det
7	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 meadows	amod
8	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 drained	nsubj:pass
9	near	near	ADP	_	11 village	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 village	det
11	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 meadows	nmod
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 drained	aux:pass
13	drained	drain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 paved	cc
15	paved	pave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 drained	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drain a condition, not said to happen	past · passive	all wet meadows near a village	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
3	pave	participle		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: 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

The storks would find more food in the gutters and the bins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 storks	det
2	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 find	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 food	amod
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 gutters	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gutters	det
9	gutters	gutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 find	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bins	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bins	det
12	bins	bin	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gutters	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	the storks	more food		the gutters and the bins			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic

Option 2

The storks would eat concrete

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 storks	det
2	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	concrete	concrete	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj

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

Option 3

Nothing would change for storks

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 storks	case
5	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 change	obl

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The storks would lose their frogs and worms and could leave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 storks	det
2	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lose	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lose	aux
4	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 frogs	nmod:poss
6	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lose	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 worms	cc
8	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 frogs	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 leave	cc
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 leave	aux
11	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lose	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	the storks	storks's frogs and worms					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Eventuality
2	leave	could	the storks not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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