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title: What would happen to an orchard if every bee and pollinator vanished? — Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpe… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to an orchard if every bee and pollinator vanished? Test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 291 «Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food» 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 5 · ★★★ · Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food

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What would happen to an orchard if every bee and pollinator vanished?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** bee · **What happens:** happen, vanish

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This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 291 «Bees, worms and soil: the hidden helpers of our food» 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/291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food:t5:1
# text = What would happen to an orchard if every bee and pollinator vanished?
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	_	6	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	orchard	orchard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	pollinator	pollinator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	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 orchard | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **vanish** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | every bee and pollinator |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Very little fruit would form unless people pollinated by hand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food:t5:o1:1
# text = Very little fruit would form unless people pollinated by hand
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	form	form	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	pollinated	pollinate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | would | little fruit |  |  |  |  | unless people | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pollinate** | participle |  | people *not said here* |  |  |  | by hand | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The trees would make more fruit, since no bees would steal the nectar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food:t5:o2:1
# text = The trees would make more fruit, since no bees would steal the nectar
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	steal	steal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	nectar	nectar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | would | the trees | more fruit |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fruit=Product |
| 2 | **steal** | would | no bees | the nectar |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nectar=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The apples would grow on the roots instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food:t5:o3:1
# text = The apples would grow on the roots instead
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | the apples |  |  | the roots |  | instead *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on root=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing at all, because the wind does all of it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:291-bees-worms-and-soil-the-hidden-helpers-of-our-food:t5:o4:1
# text = Nothing at all, because the wind does all of it
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | the wind | all |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality |

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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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