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title: What would happen if rats and stoats spread through a New Zealand fo… — Animals of Australia and New Zealand:… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if rats and stoats spread through a New Zealand forest? Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 79 «Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 9 · ★★ · Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, w…

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What would happen if rats and stoats spread through a New Zealand forest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** rats · **What happens:** happen, spread · **To what, where:** Zealand forest

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This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 79 «Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis» 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/79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand:t9:1
# text = What would happen if rats and stoats spread through a New Zealand forest?
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	_	8	mark	_	_
5	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	stoats	stoat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
12	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	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 |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **spread** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | rats and stoats |  |  | a Zealand forest |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Location |

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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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Ground-nesting birds like kiwis would lose eggs and chicks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand:t9:o1:1
# text = Ground-nesting birds like kiwis would lose eggs and chicks
1	Ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	nesting	nest	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	kiwis	kiwi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	chicks	chick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nest** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lose** | would | nesting birds like kiwis | eggs and chicks |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The birds would turn round and eat the rats and stoats instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand:t9:o2:1
# text = The birds would turn round and eat the rats and stoats instead
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	round	round	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	stoats	stoat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn round** | would | the birds |  |  |  |  | instead, round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | infinitive | the birds *not said here* | the rats and stoats |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, kiwis are too fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand:t9:o3:1
# text = Nothing, kiwis are too fast
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	kiwis	kiwi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Nothing kiwis |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Kiwis would quickly learn to fly away into the trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand:t9:o4:1
# text = Kiwis would quickly learn to fly away into the trees
1	Kiwis	kiwi	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | would | Kiwis |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **fly away** | to-infinitive | Kiwis *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the trees *result*; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into tree=Result |

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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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