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description: What would happen to some Madagascar plants if their nectar-drinking lemurs disappeared? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 127 «Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa

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What would happen to some Madagascar plants if their nectar-drinking lemurs disappeared?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** drinking lemurs · **What happens:** happen, drink, disappear

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 127 «Madagascar: real lemurs, the aye-aye and the fossa» 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/127-madagascar-real-lemurs/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:127-madagascar-real-lemurs:t6:1
# text = What would happen to some Madagascar plants if their nectar-drinking lemurs disappeared?
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	_	7	case	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
10	nectar	nectar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	lemurs	lemur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | to some Madagascar plants | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drink** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **disappear** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | plants's drinking lemurs |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 at all would change

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:127-madagascar-real-lemurs:t6:o1:1
# text = Nothing at all would change
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | would | Nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Fewer of their flowers would be pollinated

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:127-madagascar-real-lemurs:t6:o2:1
# text = Fewer of their flowers would be pollinated
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	pollinated	pollinate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pollinate** | would · passive |  | their Fewer flowers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They would grow much faster and bigger without lemurs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:127-madagascar-real-lemurs:t6:o3:1
# text = They would grow much faster and bigger without lemurs
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	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	lemurs	lemur	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 |  |  |  |  | without lemurs; fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They would grow fur

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:127-madagascar-real-lemurs:t6:o4:1
# text = They would grow fur
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	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | They | fur |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fur=Theme |

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