Test 7 · ★★ · Flowers and pollination

What would happen to an orchid that relies on one insect if that insect died out?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: orchid, insect · What happens: happen, rely, die out

This is test 7 · ★★ 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 orchid	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 orchid	det
6	orchid	orchid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 relies	nsubj
8	relies	rely	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 orchid	acl:relcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 insect	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 insect	nummod
11	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 relies	obl
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 died	mark
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 insect	det
14	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 died	nsubj
15	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 died	compound:prt
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would		to a orchid	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rely	present	a orchid	on one insect	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on insect=Theme
3	die out a condition, not said to happen	past	that insect		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

It would grow its own wings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wings	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wings	amod
6	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	It	its own wings					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme

Option 2

Nothing, orchids do not need pollen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present · do-support	Nothing orchids	pollen					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pollen=Theme

Option 3

Any other insect would take over the job at once, no problem

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 insect	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 insect	amod
3	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	5 take	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 job	det
8	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 take	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 problem	punct
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 problem	det
13	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take over	would	any other insect	the job				no problem obl	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It could not be pollinated and could slowly die out too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pollinated	nsubj:pass
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pollinated	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 pollinated	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 pollinated	aux:pass
5	pollinated	pollinate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 die	cc
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 die	aux
8	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	9 die	advmod
9	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pollinated	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 die	compound:prt
11	too	too	ADV	_	9 die	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pollinate	could · passive		It					tree rules
2	die out	could						slowly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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