Test 6 · Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant…

What would have happened if the sea cows had been protected in 1741?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, protect · To what, where: sea cows, 1741

This is test 6 of lesson 386 «Giants people saw: Steller's sea cow, Haast's eagle, giant lemurs and elephant birds» 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	4 happened	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 happened	aux
4	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 protected	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cows	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cows	compound
8	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 protected	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 protected	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 protected	aux:pass
11	protected	protect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 happened	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 1741	case
13	1741	1741	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 protected	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would · perfect							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	protect a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		the sea cows		1741			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

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 · ✓ the right answer

They might still be alive today

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	5 alive	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 alive	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	5 alive	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 alive	cop
5	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 alive	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	They				still; today	alive property	tree rules

Option 2

They would have flown away

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 flown	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 flown	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 flown	aux
4	flown	fly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 flown	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly away	would · perfect · passive		They				away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

Nothing could have saved them anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 saved	nsubj:pass
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 saved	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 saved	aux
4	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saved	obj
6	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	4 saved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	could · perfect · passive		Nothing				anyway property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary they=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They would have turned into whales

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 turned	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turned	aux
3	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 turned	aux
4	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 whales	case
6	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would · perfect	They					into whales result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into whale=Result

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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