Test 2 · ★★ · Flowers and pollination

What would happen to apple crops if there were no bees or other insects to visit the blossom?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: bees · What happens: happen, be, visit · To what, where: blossom

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 58 «Flowers and pollination» 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 crops	case
5	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crops	compound
6	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 were	mark
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 were	expl
9	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 bees	det
11	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 were	nsubj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 insects	cc
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 insects	amod
14	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bees	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 visit	mark
16	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 were	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 blossom	det
18	blossom	blossom	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 visit	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	would				to apple crops	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be a condition, not said to happen	past	no bees or other insects		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	visit	to-infinitive	no bees or other insects not said here	the blossom			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blossom=Co-Agent

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 trees would grow pears instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trees	det
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	obj
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	the trees	pears				instead property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pear=Theme

Option 2

More apples would grow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 apples	amod
2	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	More apples						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Apples would grow without seeds but just as many

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	without	without	ADP	_	5 seeds	case
5	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obl
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 many	cc
7	just	just	ADV	_	9 many	advmod
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 many	advmod
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	Apples					without seeds	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Far fewer apples would form

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 fewer	advmod
2	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 apples	amod
3	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 form	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 form	aux
5	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form	would	fewer apples						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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