Test 6 · ★★ · Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Si…

What would happen to mammoth steppe animals if their grassland turned into thick forest?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, turn · To what, where: grassland, thick forest

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 385 «Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone houses» 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 animals	case
5	mammoth	mammoth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animals	amod
6	steppe	steppe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 animals	compound
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 grassland	mark
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 grassland	nmod:poss
10	grassland	grassland	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
11	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 grassland	acl
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 forest	case
13	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 forest	amod
14	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turned	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would		animals's grassland				to mammoth steppe animals	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	turn	participle		animals's grassland not said here		thick forest			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into forest=Trajectory

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thrive	would	They						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	infinitive	They not said here					big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

They would turn into forest animals overnight

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	_	6 animals	case
5	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 animals	compound
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	obl
7	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	3 turn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	They					into forest animals result; overnight property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into animal=Result

Option 3

Nothing, they ate trees anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 ate	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ate	obj
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 ate	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Nothing	trees				anyway property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient

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

They would lose their food and space and struggle

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 lose	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 food	nmod:poss
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 space	cc
7	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 food	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 struggle	cc
9	struggle	struggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 food	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	They	their food and space and struggle					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Eventuality

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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