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title: What would happen if no squirrel or jay ever forgot an acorn? — Forests: woodland through the year and… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if no squirrel or jay ever forgot an acorn? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 12 «Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest» 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 right
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# Test 3 · ★ · Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern…

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What would happen if no squirrel or jay ever forgot an acorn?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** squirrel · **What happens:** happen, forget · **To what, where:** acorn

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 12 «Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest» 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/12-forests-woodland-through-the-year/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:12-forests-woodland-through-the-year:t3:1
# text = What would happen if no squirrel or jay ever forgot an acorn?
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	_	10	mark	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	jay	jay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
10	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	acorn	acorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	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 | **forget** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | no squirrel or jay | a acorn |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |

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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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Nothing, oaks never grow from acorns, only from cuttings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:12-forests-woodland-through-the-year:t3:o1:1
# text = Nothing, oaks never grow from acorns, only from cuttings
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	oaks	oak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	acorns	acorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	cuttings	cutting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **grow** | present | Nothing oaks |  |  |  |  | from cuttings; from acorns | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from acorn=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Oak trees would grow much faster than before

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:12-forests-woodland-through-the-year:t3:o2:1
# text = Oak trees would grow much faster than before
1	Oak	oak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	before	before	ADV	RB	_	6	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Squirrels would starve in winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:12-forests-woodland-through-the-year:t3:o3:1
# text = Squirrels would starve in winter
1	Squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	starve	starve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **starve** | would | Squirrels |  |  |  | winter |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Fewer new oaks would grow far from the old trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:12-forests-woodland-through-the-year:t3:o4:1
# text = Fewer new oaks would grow far from the old trees
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	oaks	oak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | Fewer new oaks |  |  |  |  | from the old trees; far *property* | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from tree=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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