Test 4 · ★ · Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eaters

What would happen to the foxes if a disease killed most of the rabbits in a field?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: disease · What happens: happen, kill · To what, where: most, field

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 46 «Food chains: sun, plants, plant-eaters, meat-eaters» 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	_	6 foxes	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 foxes	det
6	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 killed	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 disease	det
9	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 killed	nsubj
10	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 killed	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 rabbits	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rabbits	det
14	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 most	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 field	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 field	det
17	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 killed	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to the foxes	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kill a condition, not said to happen	past	a disease	most of the rabbits		a field			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=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

The foxes would start eating grass only, like the rabbits used to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 foxes	det
2	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 start	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 start	aux
4	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 start	xcomp
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eating	obj
7	only	only	ADV	_	6 grass	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 used	punct
9	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 used	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rabbits	det
11	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 used	nsubj
12	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 start	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	12 used	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	start	would	the foxes		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund	the foxes not said here	grass	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
3	use	past	the rabbits		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They would eat more mice, beetles and fruit, or go hungry

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 eat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 mice	amod
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 beetles	punct
7	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mice	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fruit	cc
9	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mice	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 go	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 go	cc
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 eat	conj
13	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 go	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would	They	more mice and beetles and fruit					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Patient
2	go	infinitive	They not said here					hungry property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

There would be more foxes than before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 be	expl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 before	cop
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 foxes	amod
5	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 be	nsubj
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 before	fixed
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Nothing, foxes do not eat rabbits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct
3	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 eat	advmod
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	conj
7	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	present · do-support	foxes	rabbits					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabbit=Patient

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