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title: What would happen to a road if nobody used it for 40 years? — The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals c… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to a road if nobody used it for 40 years? Test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 376 «The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued» 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 
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# Test 7 · ★★★ · The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what i…

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What would happen to a road if nobody used it for 40 years?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nobody · **What happens:** happen, use · **To what, where:** road

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This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 376 «The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued» 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/376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued:t7:1
# text = What would happen to a road if nobody used it for 40 years?
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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	9	nsubj	_	_
9	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	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 road | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **use** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | nobody | road |  |  | year |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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It would turn into a river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued:t7:o1:1
# text = It would turn into a river
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	river	river	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 river |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into river=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would stay brand new

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued:t7:o2:1
# text = It would stay brand new
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	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	brand	brand	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | would | It |  |  |  |  | new *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

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Plants would crack it and a forest would grow over it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued:t7:o3:1
# text = Plants would crack it and a forest would grow over it
1	Plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	crack	crack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	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 | **crack** | would | Plants | it |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | would | a forest |  |  | it |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It would sink into the ground at once and leave a long deep hole

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued:t7:o4:1
# text = It would sink into the ground at once and leave a long deep hole
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	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | would | It |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **leave** | infinitive |  | a long deep hole |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=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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