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title: What would happen if the Asian giant hornet had not been found and s… — Animals in the news: true stories, fak… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if the Asian giant hornet had not been found and stopped in North America? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 296 «Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them» 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 10 · ★★ · Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read t…

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What would happen if the Asian giant hornet had not been found and stopped in North America?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** happen, not find, stop · **To what, where:** Asian giant hornet

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 296 «Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them» 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/296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them:t10:1
# text = What would happen if the Asian giant hornet had not been found and stopped in North America?
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	_	12	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Asian	Asian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hornet	hornet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	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 | **not** **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | the Asian giant hornet |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **stop** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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 have slowly turned into a friendly bee

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them:t10:o1:1
# text = It would have slowly turned into a friendly bee
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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It would have made more honey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them:t10:o2:1
# text = It would have made more honey
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | would · perfect · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary honey=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, hornets cannot live in cold places

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them:t10:o3:1
# text = Nothing, hornets cannot live in cold places
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	hornets	hornet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **live** | can | Nothing hornets |  |  | cold places |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |

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

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It could have spread and killed many honeybees, as invaders often do

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them:t10:o4:1
# text = It could have spread and killed many honeybees, as invaders often do
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	honeybees	honeybee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	invaders	invader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | could · perfect · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | past |  | many honeybees |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honeybee=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | present | invaders |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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