Test 7 · The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar

What would happen if the golden lion tamarins were bred in zoos but their forest kept being cut down?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: forest · What happens: happen, breed, keep, cut down · To what, where: golden lion tamarins, zoos, forest

This is test 7 of lesson 86 «The monkey house and the lemurs of Madagascar» 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	_	10 bred	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tamarins	det
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tamarins	amod
7	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tamarins	compound
8	tamarins	tamarin	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bred	nsubj:pass
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bred	aux:pass
10	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 zoos	case
12	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bred	obl
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 kept	cc
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 forest	nmod:poss
15	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kept	nsubj:pass
16	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 bred	conj
17	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 cut	aux:pass
18	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 kept	xcomp
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 cut	compound:prt
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	breed a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		the golden lion tamarins	zoos	tree rules
3	keep	participle · passive		tamarins's forest		tree rules
4	cut down	gerund · passive	tamarins's forest not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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 · ✓ the right answer

There would be nowhere safe in the wild to return them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 be	expl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 safe	cop
4	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 safe	advmod
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 wild	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wild	det
8	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 safe	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 return	mark
10	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 safe	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 return	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here			the wild		nowhere, safe property	tree rules
2	return	to-infinitive	you not said here	them = they					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They would quickly learn to live without trees, on the ground

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	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 live	mark
6	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 learn	xcomp
7	without	without	ADP	_	8 trees	case
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 live	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ground	punct
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 ground	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 learn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	would	They			the ground		quickly property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	live	to-infinitive	They not said here					without trees	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nothing, zoo tamarins never need the wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 zoo	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tamarins	compound
4	tamarins	tamarin	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 need	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 need	advmod
6	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wild	det
8	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not need	present	zoo tamarins	the wild					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wild=Theme

Option 4

The zoos would run out of space at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 zoos	det
2	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 run	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 run	aux
4	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	7 space	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 space	case
7	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	would	the zoos			space			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out space=Trajectory

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