Test 3 · ★★ · Farms and where our food comes from

What would happen to apple farms if all the bees disappeared?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bees · What happens: happen, disappear

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 80 «Farms and where our food comes from» 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	_	6 farms	case
5	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 farms	compound
6	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 disappeared	mark
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 bees	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bees	det
10	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 disappeared	nsubj
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 apple farms	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	disappear a condition, not said to happen	participle	all bees						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, apples need no flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 need	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 flowers	det
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	apples	no flowers				Nothing vocative	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot flower=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Apples would grow all year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl:unmarked

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

There would be far fewer apples

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	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 fewer	advmod
5	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 apples	amod
6	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 be	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	would	fewer apples			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Apples would grow bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	aux
3	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 grow	xcomp

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

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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