Test 7 · China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-…

What would happen if a farm released salamanders from one river into a different river?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, release · To what, where: different river, farm

This is test 7 of lesson 378 «China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-crowned cranes and giant salamanders» 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	_	8 salamanders	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 farm	det
6	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 salamanders	compound
7	released	release	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 farm	acl
8	salamanders	salamander	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	advcl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 river	nummod
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 salamanders	nmod
12	into	into	ADP	_	15 river	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 river	det
14	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 river	amod
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				a different river			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	release	participle		a farm not said here					vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer

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 · ✓ the right answer

Different kinds would mix up and the local kind could be lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kinds	amod
2	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mix	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 mix	aux
4	mix	mix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 mix	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lost	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kind	det
8	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kind	amod
9	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lost	nsubj:pass
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 lost	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 lost	aux:pass
12	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 mix	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix up	would	Different kinds						vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	lose	could · passive		the local kind					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 2

Nothing, because they are all the same kind of salamander anyway, whatever river

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 kind	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 kind	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kind	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 kind	cop
6	all	all	ADV	_	9 kind	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kind	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kind	amod
9	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 salamander	case
11	salamander	salamander	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kind	nmod
12	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	9 kind	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 river	punct
14	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 river	det:predet
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	the same kind				of salamander; all, anyway property	tree rules

Option 3

Both rivers would get cleaner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 rivers	det
2	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	both rivers	cleaner					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cleaner=Stimulus

Option 4

The salamanders would swim home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 salamanders	det
2	salamanders	salamander	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 swim	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 swim	aux
4	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 swim	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	would	the salamanders					home property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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