Test 5 · ★ · Conservation: how people help animals come back

What would happen if a zoo bred only brothers and sisters for many generations?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: zoo · What happens: happen, breed

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 78 «Conservation: how people help animals come back» 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	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 bred	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 zoo	det
6	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bred	nsubj
7	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 brothers	advmod
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bred	obl:agent
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sisters	cc
11	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 brothers	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 generations	case
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 generations	amod
14	generations	generation	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bred	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	breed a condition, not said to happen	participle	a zoo				for many generations		tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

The animals would be less healthy and less able to survive disease

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 healthy	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 healthy	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 healthy	cop
5	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 healthy	advmod
6	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 able	cc
8	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 able	advmod
9	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 healthy	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 survive	mark
11	survive	survive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 able	xcomp
12	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 survive	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	would	the animals		healthy, less property	tree rules
2	be		the animals not said here		less property	tree rules
3	survive	to-infinitive	the animals not said here	disease		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme disease=Circumstance

Option 2

They would grow stronger and healthier with every new generation born

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 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 healthier	cc
6	healthier	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 stronger	conj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 generation	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 generation	det
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 generation	amod
10	generation	generation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl
11	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 generation	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	They				with every new generation	strong property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bear	participle		every new generation not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Nothing would change at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

They would turn into a new species

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	_	7 species	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 species	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 species	amod
7	species	species	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

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

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