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title: What would happen if no antivenom for funnel-webs existed? — Australia's venomous animals and why f… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if no antivenom for funnel-webs existed? Test 5 · ★★ of lesson 166 «Australia's venomous animals and why few people die» 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 wrong.
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# Test 5 · ★★ · Australia's venomous animals and why few people die

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What would happen if no antivenom for funnel-webs existed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** antivenom · **What happens:** happen, exist

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 166 «Australia's venomous animals and why few people die» 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/166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die:t5:1
# text = What would happen if no antivenom for funnel-webs existed?
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	_	11	mark	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	antivenom	antivenom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	funnel	funnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	webs	web	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	existed	exist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	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 | **exist** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | no antivenom for funnel webs |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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Everyone would be safe anyway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die:t5:o1:1
# text = Everyone would be safe anyway
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Everyone |  |  |  |  | anyway, safe *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Funnel-webs would just stop biting people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die:t5:o2:1
# text = Funnel-webs would just stop biting people
1	Funnel	funnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	webs	web	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	biting	bite	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | Funnel webs |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **bite** | gerund | Funnel webs *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Some bites might be deadly again, as before 1981

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die:t5:o3:1
# text = Some bites might be deadly again, as before 1981
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	bites	bite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	1981	1981	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | might | some bites |  |  |  | again | as 1981; deadly *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing, because the bite was never dangerous anyway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die:t5:o4:1
# text = Nothing, because the bite was never dangerous anyway
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	acl	_	_
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | the bite |  |  |  |  | anyway, dangerous *property* | tree rules |

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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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