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title: «worms are useless, I'd chuck 'em all out of the garden» What would… — Who eats whom: predators, prey, scaven… · tree and pragmatics
description: «worms are useless, I'd chuck 'em all out of the garden» What would happen? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 47 «Who eats whom: predators, prey, scavengers and decomposers» 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 11 · ★★ · Who eats whom: predators, prey, scavengers and decomposers

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«worms are useless, I'd chuck 'em all out of the garden» What would happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** worms, I · **What happens:** be, chuck, happen · **To what, where:** 'em, garden · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 47 «Who eats whom: predators, prey, scavengers and decomposers» 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/47-predators-prey-scavengers-decomposers/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:47-predators-prey-scavengers-decomposers:t11:1
# text = «worms are useless, I'd chuck 'em all out of the garden» What would happen?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	chuck	chuck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
9	'em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
16	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | worms |  |  |  |  | useless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **chuck** *in a quote* | would | I | 'em *= they* |  | the garden |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme out garden=Destination |
| 3 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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 {#o1}

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The soil would fill with more air and water, and everything would grow better

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:47-predators-prey-scavengers-decomposers:t11:o1:1
# text = The soil would fill with more air and water, and everything would grow better
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
15	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | would | the soil |  |  |  |  | with more air and water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with air=Instrument |
| 2 | **grow** | would | everything |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The plants would grow twice as fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:47-predators-prey-scavengers-decomposers:t11:o2:1
# text = The plants would grow twice as fast
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	plants	plant	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	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | the plants |  |  |  |  | fast, twice *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing at all would change

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:47-predators-prey-scavengers-decomposers:t11:o3:1
# text = Nothing at all would change
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | would | Nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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Dead leaves would pile up and the soil would get poorer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:47-predators-prey-scavengers-decomposers:t11:o4:1
# text = Dead leaves would pile up and the soil would get poorer
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	pile	pile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	poorer	poor	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pile up** | would | Dead leaves |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | would | the soil |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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