Test 7 · ★ · The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees

What would happen if a zoo fed its gorillas lots of sweet bananas every day?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: happen, feed · To what, where: zoo

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 84 «The ape house: gorillas and chimpanzees» 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 fed	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 zoo	det
6	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fed	nsubj:pass
7	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 gorillas	nmod:poss
9	gorillas	gorilla	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fed	obj
10	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fed	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 bananas	case
12	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bananas	amod
13	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lots	nmod
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl:unmarked
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would					day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feed a condition, not said to happen	participle · passive		a zoo					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

They would grow much stronger and taller than wild gorillas

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	much	much	ADV	_	5 stronger	advmod
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 taller	cc
7	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 stronger	conj
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 gorillas	case
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gorillas	amod
10	gorillas	gorilla	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stronger	obl

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

Option 2

Nothing, bananas are their only real food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 bananas	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	bananas	banana	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 food	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 food	cop
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 food	nmod:poss
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 real	advmod
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 food	amod
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nothing bananas	bananas's real food					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Too much sugar could harm their teeth and bellies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sugar	amod
3	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 harm	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 harm	aux
5	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 teeth	nmod:poss
7	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 harm	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bellies	cc
9	bellies	belly	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 teeth	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	harm	could	much sugar	their teeth and bellies					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tooth=Experiencer

Option 4

They would stop building nests

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 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nests	compound
5	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	They	building nests					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality nest=Eventuality

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