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title: What would happen to a big-bodied elephant stuck on a small island w… — Terror birds, moas, giant insects and… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to a big-bodied elephant stuck on a small island with little food and no hunters? Test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 274 «Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each
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# Test 3 · ★★★ · Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants

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What would happen to a big-bodied elephant stuck on a small island with little food and no hunters?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** happen, body, stick · **To what, where:** bodied elephant, small island

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This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 274 «Terror birds, moas, giant insects and other lost giants» 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/274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants:t3:1
# text = What would happen to a big-bodied elephant stuck on a small island with little food and no hunters?
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	_	9	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	bodied	body	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | to a bodied elephant and no hunters | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **body** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stick** | participle |  | a bodied elephant and no hunters *not said here* |  | a small island with little food |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on island=Destination |

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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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It would turn into a Komodo dragon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants:t3:o1:1
# text = It would turn into a Komodo dragon
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|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	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Komodo	Komodo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | It |  |  |  |  | into a Komodo dragon *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into dragon=Result |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would grow wings and fly home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants:t3:o2:1
# text = It would grow wings and fly home
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|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	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	home	home	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | It | wings |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Its kind would get bigger and bigger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants:t3:o3:1
# text = Its kind would get bigger and bigger
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | Its kind |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Over many generations its kind would tend to get smaller

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:274-terror-birds-moas-giant-insects-and-lost-giants:t3:o4:1
# text = Over many generations its kind would tend to get smaller
1	Over	over	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	tend	tend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tend** | would | its kind | many generations *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | its kind *not said here* |  |  |  |  | small *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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