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title: What would happen if a zoo bred only brothers and sisters for many g… — Conservation: how people help animals… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a zoo bred only brothers and sisters for many generations? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 78 «Conservation: how people help animals come back» 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 righ
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# Test 5 · ★ · Conservation: how people help animals come back

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What would happen if a zoo bred only brothers and sisters for many generations?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** zoo · **What happens:** happen, breed

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 78 «Conservation: how people help animals come back» 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/78-conservation-animals-come-back/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:78-conservation-animals-come-back:t5:1
# text = What would happen if a zoo bred only brothers and sisters for many generations?
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	_	7	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	bred	breed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:agent	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	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 | **breed** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | a zoo |  |  |  | for many generations |  | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The animals would be less healthy and less able to survive disease

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:78-conservation-animals-come-back:t5:o1:1
# text = The animals would be less healthy and less able to survive disease
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	survive	survive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | the animals |  |  |  |  | healthy, less *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | less *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **survive** | to-infinitive | the animals *not said here* | disease |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme disease=Circumstance |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They would grow stronger and healthier with every new generation born

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:78-conservation-animals-come-back:t5:o2:1
# text = They would grow stronger and healthier with every new generation born
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	healthier	healthy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
9	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	generation	generation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | They |  |  |  | with every new generation | strong *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** | participle |  | every new generation *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing would change at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:78-conservation-animals-come-back:t5:o3:1
# text = Nothing would change at all
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They would turn into a new species

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:78-conservation-animals-come-back:t5:o4:1
# text = They would turn into a new species
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|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	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	species	species	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 | They |  |  | a new species |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into species=Trajectory |

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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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