Test 8 · ★ · China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies

What would happen to most other crops in a flooded rice field?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, flood · To what, where: flooded rice field

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 380 «China's plants: bamboo, ginkgo, lotus, tea and rice paddies» 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 crops	case
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 crops	amod
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 crops	amod
7	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 field	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 field	det
10	flooded	flood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 field	amod
11	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 field	compound
12	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				a flooded rice field		to most other crops	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in field=Location
2	flood	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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

They would float away and grow again further down the river

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 float	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 float	aux
3	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 float	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 grow	cc
6	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 float	conj
7	again	again	ADV	_	8 further	advmod
8	further	further	ADV	_	6 grow	advmod
9	down	down	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float away	would	They					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	present	They not said here					down the river; further property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They would turn into rice

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 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 rice	case
5	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Their roots would get no air and they would die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 roots	nmod:poss
2	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 die	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 die	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 die	aux
10	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	Their roots	no air					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer air=Stimulus
2	die	would	roots = root						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They would grow faster than rice

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 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 rice	case
6	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl

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

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