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title: What would happen to a leafcutter colony if all its fungus died? — The rainforest from below: understorey… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to a leafcutter colony if all its fungus died? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 3 «The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor» 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 · ★ · The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor

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What would happen to a leafcutter colony if all its fungus died?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** fungus · **What happens:** happen, die

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 3 «The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor» 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/3-the-rainforest-from-below/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:3-the-rainforest-from-below:t5:1
# text = What would happen to a leafcutter colony if all its fungus died?
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	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	leafcutter	leafcutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	fungus	fungus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	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 leafcutter colony | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **die** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | colony's fungus |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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Nothing, the ants would just eat the leaves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:3-the-rainforest-from-below:t5:o1:1
# text = Nothing, the ants would just eat the leaves
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | would | Nothing | the leaves |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The colony would go hungry, because the fungus is its food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:3-the-rainforest-from-below:t5:o2:1
# text = The colony would go hungry, because the fungus is its food
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fungus	fungus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | would | the colony |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the fungus | fungus's food |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The ants would start eating soil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:3-the-rainforest-from-below:t5:o3:1
# text = The ants would start eating soil
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | would | the ants |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | the ants *not said here* | soil |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The queen would grow new fungus from her wings and feed the whole colony

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:3-the-rainforest-from-below:t5:o4:1
# text = The queen would grow new fungus from her wings and feed the whole colony
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fungus	fungus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | the queen | new fungus |  | queen's wings |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent fungus=Product from wing=Material |
| 2 | **feed** | present | the queen *not said here* | the whole colony |  |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colony=Recipient |

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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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