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title: What would happen to pandas if one kind of bamboo flowered and died… — The Asian forest area: giant pandas, r… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to pandas if one kind of bamboo flowered and died in their forest? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 107 «The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 6 · ★ · The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs an…

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What would happen to pandas if one kind of bamboo flowered and died in their forest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** one kind · **What happens:** happen, flower, die

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 107 «The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears» 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/107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears:t6:1
# text = What would happen to pandas if one kind of bamboo flowered and died in their forest?
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	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	pandas	panda	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	flowered	flower	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | to pandas | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **flower** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | one kind of bamboo |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **die** | past | one kind of bamboo *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in pandas's forest | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in forest=Attribute |

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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 {#o1}

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They would start to eat tigers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears:t6:o1:1
# text = They would start to eat tigers
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	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | would | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | They *not said here* | tigers |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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They would move to other kinds, if there are some nearby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears:t6:o2:1
# text = They would move to other kinds, if there are some nearby
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	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	nsubj	_	_
12	nearby	nearby	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | would | They |  |  | other kinds |  | nearby *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to kind=Trajectory |
| 2 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | some |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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They would sleep all through the years until it grows back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears:t6:o3:1
# text = They would sleep all through the years until it grows back
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	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | would | They |  |  |  | year | all *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **grow back** | present | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing, pandas do not eat bamboo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:107-the-asian-forest-area-pandas-red-pandas-tapirs-sun-bears:t6:o4:1
# text = Nothing, pandas do not eat bamboo
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	pandas	panda	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **eat** | present · do-support | pandas | bamboo |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bamboo=Patient |

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**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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