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title: What would happen if lots of people fed the quokkas every day? — The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, e… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if lots of people fed the quokkas every day? Test 9 of lesson 103 «The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and dingoes» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 9 · The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and d…

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What would happen if lots of people fed the quokkas every day?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lots · **What happens:** happen, feed · **To what, where:** quokkas

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This is test 9 of lesson 103 «The Australian walkabout: kangaroos, emus, wallabies and dingoes» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes:t9:1
# text = What would happen if lots of people fed the quokkas every day?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	quokkas	quokka	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **feed** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | lots of people | the quokkas |  |  | day |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quokka=Recipient |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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They could get ill and lose fear of people, so it is banned

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes:t9:o1:1
# text = They could get ill and lose fear of people, so it is banned
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	lose	lose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	banned	ban	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | could | They | ill fear of people |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fear=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ban** | present · passive |  | fear |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **fear** |  |  | people |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They would learn to smile more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes:t9:o2:1
# text = They would learn to smile more
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	smile	smile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | would | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **smile** | to-infinitive | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, because quokkas only eat leaves anyway and ignore the food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes:t9:o3:1
# text = Nothing, because quokkas only eat leaves anyway and ignore the food
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	quokkas	quokka	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	ignore	ignore	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | quokkas | leaves |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient |
| 2 | **ignore** | present | quokkas *not said here* | the food |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They would grow into kangaroos

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:103-the-australian-walkabout-kangaroos-emus-wallabies-dingoes:t9:o4:1
# text = They would grow into kangaroos
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	kangaroos	kangaroo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | They |  |  |  |  | into kangaroos *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into kangaroo=Result |

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