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title: What would happen to bees in a city with no gardens, parks or green… — The city as a habitat · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to bees in a city with no gardens, parks or green roofs? Test 9 of lesson 14 «The city as a habitat» 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 9 · The city as a habitat

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What would happen to bees in a city with no gardens, parks or green roofs?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** happen · **To what, where:** city

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This is test 9 of lesson 14 «The city as a habitat» 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/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:14-the-city-as-a-habitat:t9:1
# text = What would happen to bees in a city with no gardens, parks or green roofs?
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	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	parks	park	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	roofs	roof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	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 |  |  |  | a city with no gardens and parks or green roofs |  | to bees | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in city=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 {#o1}

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They would eat sugar from cafés and do even better than before

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:14-the-city-as-a-habitat:t9:o1:1
# text = They would eat sugar from cafés and do even better than before
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	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	cafés	café	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	before	before	ADV	RB	_	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | would | They | sugar |  | cafés |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Patient |

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

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They would find far less food and become fewer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:14-the-city-as-a-habitat:t9:o2:1
# text = They would find far less food and become fewer
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	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | would | They | less food |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic |
| 2 | **become** | infinitive | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  | few *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, bees need no flowers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:14-the-city-as-a-habitat:t9:o3:1
# text = Nothing, bees need no flowers
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | bees | no flowers |  |  |  | Nothing *vocative* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot flower=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They would turn into wasps

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:14-the-city-as-a-habitat:t9:o4:1
# text = They would turn into wasps
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	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	wasps	wasp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | They |  |  | wasps |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into wasp=Trajectory |

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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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