Test 9 · China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-…

What would happen to a monkey troop if its forest were cut into small islands?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, cut · To what, where: forest, small islands

This is test 9 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	to	to	ADP	_	7 troop	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 troop	det
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 troop	compound
7	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 cut	mark
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 forest	nmod:poss
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cut	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cut	aux:pass
12	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 islands	case
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 islands	amod
15	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cut	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a monkey troop	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cut a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		troop's forest		small islands			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into island=Product

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

It would move into houses

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 move	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 move	aux
3	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 houses	case
5	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	would	It			houses			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into house=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It would go hungry, with no way to reach other forests or new mates

The tree, 14 words

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 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 go	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 way	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	parataxis
9	to	to	PART	_	10 reach	mark
10	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 way	acl
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 forests	amod
12	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 reach	obj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 mates	cc
14	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mates	amod
15	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 forests	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	It					hungry property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reach	to-infinitive		other forests or new mates					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent forest=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, monkeys need little space and can live happily in a few trees for ever

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 need	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 space	amod
6	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 live	cc
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 live	aux
9	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 need	conj
10	happily	happily	ADV	_	9 live	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 trees	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 trees	det
13	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 trees	amod
14	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 live	obl
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 ever	case
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	monkeys	little space				Nothing vocative	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot space=Theme
2	live	can	monkeys not said here			a few trees		happily property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location

Option 4

It would grow bigger and stronger

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 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stronger	cc
6	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 bigger	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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