Test 7 · ★ · How plants make their food

What would happen to animals if all plants and algae disappeared?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: plants · What happens: happen, disappear

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 22 «How plants make their food» of the world 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	_	5 animals	case
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 disappeared	mark
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 plants	det
8	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 disappeared	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 algae	cc
10	algae	alga	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 plants	conj
11	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	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 animals	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	disappear a condition, not said to happen	participle	all plants and algae						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Nothing, animals make their own food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 animals	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 food	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 food	amod
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Nothing animals	animals's own food					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Product

Option 2

They would eat soil instead

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 eat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would	They	soil				instead property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They would breathe carbon dioxide

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 breathe	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 breathe	aux
3	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dioxide	compound
5	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 breathe	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	would	They	carbon dioxide					vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dioxide=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They would run out of food and oxygen

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 run	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 food	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 food	case
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 run	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 oxygen	cc
8	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 food	conj

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

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