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title: What would happen to apple crops if there were no bees or other inse… — Flowers and pollination · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to apple crops if there were no bees or other insects to visit the blossom? Test 2 · ★★ of lesson 58 «Flowers and pollination» 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 2 · ★★ · Flowers and pollination

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What would happen to apple crops if there were no bees or other insects to visit the blossom?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** bees · **What happens:** happen, be, visit · **To what, where:** blossom

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This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 58 «Flowers and pollination» 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/58-flowers-and-pollination/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:58-flowers-and-pollination:t2:1
# text = What would happen to apple crops if there were no bees or other insects to visit the blossom?
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	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | to apple crops | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | no bees or other insects |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **visit** | to-infinitive | no bees or other insects *not said here* | the blossom |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blossom=Co-Agent |

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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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The trees would grow pears instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:58-flowers-and-pollination:t2:o1:1
# text = The trees would grow pears instead
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	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	pears	pear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | the trees | pears |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pear=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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More apples would grow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:58-flowers-and-pollination:t2:o2:1
# text = More apples would grow
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
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	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Apples would grow without seeds but just as many

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:58-flowers-and-pollination:t2:o3:1
# text = Apples would grow without seeds but just as many
1	Apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | Apples |  |  |  |  | without seeds | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Far fewer apples would form

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:58-flowers-and-pollination:t2:o4:1
# text = Far fewer apples would form
1	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	form	form	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | would | fewer apples |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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