Test 4 · ★ · Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things

What would happen in a forest if there were no fungi or bacteria?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fungi · What happens: happen, be · To what, where: forest

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 77 «Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things» 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	in	in	ADP	_	6 forest	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 forest	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 were	mark
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 were	expl
9	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 fungi	det
11	fungi	fungus	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 were	nsubj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 bacteria	cc
13	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fungi	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				a forest			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in forest=Location
2	be a condition, not said to happen	past	no fungi or bacteria			there			vn exist-47.1 «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

Nothing at all would change

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 change	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
5	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Dead leaves and logs would pile up and not rot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 leaves	amod
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pile	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 logs	cc
4	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 leaves	conj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 pile	aux
6	pile	pile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 pile	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rot	cc
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 rot	advmod
10	rot	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pile	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pile up	would	Dead leaves and logs						vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme
2	not rot	infinitive	Dead leaves and logs not said here						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Trees would grow twice as fast with nothing to eat their leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 fast	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 grow	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 nothing	case
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 grow	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 nothing	acl
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 leaves	nmod:poss
12	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	Trees					with nothing; fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	Trees not said here	Trees's leaves					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient

Option 4

The soil would become richer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soil	det
2	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	would	the soil					rich property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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