Test 12 · ★★★ · Balance in a food web

if the wolves all go wot happens to the deer

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: wolves · What happens: go, happen · To what, where: wot

This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 30 «Balance in a food web» 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	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 go	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolves	det
3	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 go	nsubj
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 happens	advcl
6	wot	wot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obj
7	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 deer	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 deer	det
10	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 happens	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go a condition, not said to happen	present	the wolves	wot				all property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wot=Theme
2	happen	present						to the deer	vn occur-48.3-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They usually increase and can eat too many plants

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 increase	nsubj
2	usually	usually	ADV	_	3 increase	advmod
3	increase	increase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 eat	cc
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 eat	aux
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 increase	conj
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 many	advmod
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plants	amod
9	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	increase	present	They					usually property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	eat	can	They not said here	many plants					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient

Option 2

They usually decrease straight away

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 decrease	nsubj
2	usually	usually	ADV	_	3 decrease	advmod
3	decrease	decrease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	3 decrease	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decrease	present	They					away, usually property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3

They start eating other animals

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	2 start	nsubj
2	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 start	xcomp
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animals	amod
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	They						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat	gerund	They not said here	other animals					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient

Option 4

Nothing at all changes for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 changes	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 changes	det
4	changes	change	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nothing	nmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 changes	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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