Test 6 · The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth

What would happen to elephant numbers if many adults were killed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, kill · To what, where: many adults

This is test 6 of lesson 83 «The elephant house: herds, feet, food and the mouse myth» 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 numbers	case
5	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 numbers	compound
6	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 killed	mark
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 adults	amod
9	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 killed	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 killed	aux:pass
11	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to elephant numbers	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kill a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		many adults					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They would recover very slowly, as each baby takes years

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 recover	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 recover	aux
3	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 slowly	advmod
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 recover	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 takes	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 takes	mark
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 baby	det
9	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 takes	nsubj
10	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 recover	parataxis
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 takes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recover	would	They					slowly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	take	present	each baby				year		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nothing, elephants have dozens of babies a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 elephants	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dozens	dozen	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 babies	case
7	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dozens	nmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 year	det
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Nothing elephants	dozens of babies			year		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dozen=Patient

Option 3

They would recover in a single season, as elephants breed fast

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 recover	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 recover	aux
3	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 season	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 season	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 season	amod
7	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 recover	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 breed	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 breed	mark
10	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 breed	nsubj
11	breed	breed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 recover	conj
12	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 breed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recover	would	They				season		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	breed	present	elephants					fast property	tree rules

Option 4

The babies would grow up faster to fill the gap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 babies	det
2	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 grow	compound:prt
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fill	mark
8	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 grow	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gap	det
10	gap	gap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow up	would	the babies					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fill	to-infinitive	the babies not said here	the gap					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gap=Patient

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