Test 9 · ★★ · Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, w…

What would happen if rats and stoats spread through a New Zealand forest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: rats · What happens: happen, spread · To what, where: Zealand forest

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 79 «Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis» 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	_	8 spread	mark
5	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spread	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stoats	cc
7	stoats	stoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rats	conj
8	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	through	through	ADP	_	13 forest	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 forest	det
11	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Zealand	flat
12	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 forest	compound
13	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spread	obl
14	?	?	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	spread a condition, not said to happen	present	rats and stoats			a Zealand forest			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=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 · ✓ the right answer

Ground-nesting birds like kiwis would lose eggs and chicks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nesting	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Ground	punct
3	nesting	nest	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 birds	amod
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lose	nsubj
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 kiwis	case
6	kiwis	kiwi	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 birds	nmod
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 lose	aux
8	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lose	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 chicks	cc
11	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 eggs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nest	gerund							vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lose	would	nesting birds like kiwis	eggs and chicks					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Eventuality

Option 2

The birds would turn round and eat the rats and stoats instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 birds	det
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	round	round	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 eat	cc
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 turn	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rats	det
9	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eat	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stoats	cc
11	stoats	stoat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rats	conj
12	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn round	would	the birds					instead, round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	infinitive	the birds not said here	the rats and stoats					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Patient

Option 3

Nothing, kiwis are too fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 kiwis	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	kiwis	kiwi	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fast	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fast	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing kiwis					fast property	tree rules

Option 4

Kiwis would quickly learn to fly away into the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kiwis	kiwi	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 learn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 learn	advmod
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fly	mark
6	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 learn	xcomp
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 fly	advmod
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 trees	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trees	det
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	Kiwis					quickly property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fly away	to-infinitive	Kiwis not said here					into the trees result; away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into tree=Result

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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