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title: A farm that was hard to farm is left wild. What might happen, as at… — Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Brit… · tree and pragmatics
description: A farm that was hard to farm is left wild. What might happen, as at Knepp? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 283 «Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature back» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Test 11 · ★ · Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nat…

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A farm that was hard to farm is left wild. What might happen, as at Knepp?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** farm · **What happens:** be, leave, happen · **To what, where:** farm

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 283 «Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature back» 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/283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A farm that was hard to farm is left wild.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back:t11:1
# text = A farm that was hard to farm is left wild.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | a farm |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | present · passive |  | a farm |  |  |  | wild *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What might happen, as at Knepp?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back:t11:2
# text = What might happen, as at Knepp?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Knepp	Knepp	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | might |  |  |  |  |  | as Knepp | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It would turn into a desert

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back:t11:o1:1
# text = It would turn into a desert
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	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	desert	desert	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 |  |  | a desert |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into desert=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would fill up with lions

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back:t11:o2:1
# text = It would fill up with lions
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	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill up** | would | It |  |  |  |  | with lions | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with lion=Instrument |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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All the animals would leave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back:t11:o3:1
# text = All the animals would leave
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | would | all animals |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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Missing birds like nightingales and turtle doves might come back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back:t11:o4:1
# text = Missing birds like nightingales and turtle doves might come back
1	Missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	nightingales	nightingale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	doves	dove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
8	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | might | Missing birds like nightingales and turtle doves |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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