Test 4 · Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed

What would happen if a farmer let silk moths go free in a forest?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: farmer, silk moths · What happens: happen, let, go

This is test 4 of lesson 381 «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» 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	_	7 let	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 farmer	det
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 let	nsubj
7	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 happen	advcl
8	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 moths	compound
9	moths	moth	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 go	nsubj
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 let	ccomp
11	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 go	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 forest	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 forest	det
14	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 free	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	a farmer		tree rules
3	go	present	silk moths	free property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: 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

They would fly back home every evening to the farmer's warm shed to sleep

The tree, 15 words

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 fly	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 fly	advmod
5	home	home	ADV	_	3 fly	advmod
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 evening	det
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fly	obl:unmarked
8	to	to	ADP	_	13 shed	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 farmer	det
10	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shed	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 farmer	case
12	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 shed	amod
13	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fly	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 sleep	mark
15	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fly	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly back	would	They			the farmer's warm shed	evening	home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shed=Destination
2	sleep	to-infinitive	They not said here						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They would spread and take over the forest

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 spread	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 spread	aux
3	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 take	cc
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 spread	conj
6	over	over	ADP	_	5 take	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	would	They						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take over	infinitive	They not said here	the forest					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Theme

Option 3

They would turn wild and grow bigger

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	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turn	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 grow	cc
6	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	conj
7	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 grow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	They					wild property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	present	They not said here					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

They would soon die, as they cannot fly or fend for themselves

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	4 die	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 die	aux
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 die	advmod
4	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fly	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 fly	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fly	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fly	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 fly	advmod
10	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 die	conj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 fend	cc
12	fend	fend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 die	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 themselves	case
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 fend	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	die	would	They	soon property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	not fly	can	they		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fend	infinitive	They not said here	for themselves = they	tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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