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description: What would happen if condors were released while ranchers still left lead bullets in carcasses? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 114 «Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 2 · ★ · Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature

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What would happen if condors were released while ranchers still left lead bullets in carcasses?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ranchers · **What happens:** happen, release, leave · **To what, where:** condors, lead bullets, carcasses

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 114 «Back to the wild: animals that zoos returned to nature» 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/114-back-to-the-wild/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:114-back-to-the-wild:t2:1
# text = What would happen if condors were released while ranchers still left lead bullets in carcasses?
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	_	7	mark	_	_
5	condors	condor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	released	release	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	ranchers	rancher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
12	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	bullets	bullet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	carcasses	carcass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	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 | **release** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | condors |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Source |
| 3 | **leave** | past | ranchers | lead bullets |  | carcasses | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bullet=Theme in carcass=Location |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The condors would learn to avoid bullets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:114-back-to-the-wild:t2:o1:1
# text = The condors would learn to avoid bullets
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	condors	condor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	avoid	avoid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	bullets	bullet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | would | the condors |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **avoid** | to-infinitive | the condors *not said here* | bullets |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent bullet=Location |

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

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Many condors would be poisoned again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:114-back-to-the-wild:t2:o2:1
# text = Many condors would be poisoned again
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	condors	condor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	poisoned	poison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **poison** | would · passive |  | Many condors |  |  | again |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, as lead is harmless to birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:114-back-to-the-wild:t2:o3:1
# text = Nothing, as lead is harmless to birds
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Nothing |  |  |  |  | to birds; harmless *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The lead would make them fly much higher

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:114-back-to-the-wild:t2:o4:1
# text = The lead would make them fly much higher
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | would | the lead | them *= they* |  |  |  | high *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fly** | infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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