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title: What would most likely have happened to bald eagles if Silent Spring… — Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goo… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would most likely have happened to bald eagles if Silent Spring had never been written? Test 5 of lesson 284 «Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 5 · Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maatha…

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What would most likely have happened to bald eagles if Silent Spring had never been written?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** happen, not write · **To what, where:** bald eagles, Silent Spring

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This is test 5 of lesson 284 «Conservation heroes: Attenborough, Goodall, Carson, Maathai and the rangers» 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/284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers:t5:1
# text = What would most likely have happened to bald eagles if Silent Spring had never been written?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	bald	bald	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	eagles	eagle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	Silent	Silent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
12	Spring	Spring	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would · perfect |  | bald eagles |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **write** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | Silent Spring |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Nothing could have harmed eagles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers:t5:o1:1
# text = Nothing could have harmed eagles
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	harmed	harm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	eagles	eagle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **harm** | could · perfect · passive |  | Nothing |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer eagle=Result |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Eagles would have learnt to eat DDT and grown stronger from it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers:t5:o2:1
# text = Eagles would have learnt to eat DDT and grown stronger from it
1	Eagles	eagle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	learnt	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	DDT	ddt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
10	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	xcomp	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | would · perfect | Eagles |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Eagles *not said here* | DDT |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ddt=Patient |
| 3 | **grow** | participle | Eagles *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from DDT; strong *property* | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from it=Patient |

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

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DDT might have stayed in use longer and harmed more eggs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers:t5:o3:1
# text = DDT might have stayed in use longer and harmed more eggs
1	DDT	ddt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	stayed	stay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	harmed	harm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay in** | might · perfect · passive |  | DDT |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location |
| 2 | **use** | present |  |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **harm** | past |  | more eggs |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus egg=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Eagles would have grown bigger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:284-conservation-heroes-attenborough-goodall-carson-maathai-and-the-rangers:t5:o4:1
# text = Eagles would have grown bigger
1	Eagles	eagle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would · perfect | Eagles |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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