Test 4 · ★ · The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?

What would happen to capybaras in a park if jaguars and caimans all disappeared?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen · To what, where: park

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 42 «The capybara: the calmest animal, friend of crocodiles?» 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	_	5 capybaras	case
5	capybaras	capybara	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 park	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 park	det
8	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 disappeared	mark
10	jaguars	jaguar	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 disappeared	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 caimans	cc
12	caimans	caiman	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 jaguars	conj
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 disappeared	advmod
14	disappeared	disappeared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 happen	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				a park		to capybaras	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in park=Location

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 · ← Mova's choice

They would slowly die out without their old friends to keep them company

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	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 die	advmod
4	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 die	compound:prt
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	9 friends	mark
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 friends	nmod:poss
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 friends	amod
9	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 die	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 keep	mark
11	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 die	advcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 keep	obj
13	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die out	would	They					slowly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	keep	to-infinitive	They not said here	friends = friend					vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme company=Attribute

Option 2

They would turn into hunters

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 hunters	case
5	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	obl

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Their numbers would grow, and they could eat gardens bare

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 numbers	nmod:poss
2	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 eat	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 eat	cc
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 eat	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 eat	aux
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 grow	conj
10	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 eat	obj
11	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eat	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	Their numbers						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	could	numbers = number	gardens				bare property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Patient

Option 4

Nothing at all would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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