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title: What would happen in a forest if there were no fungi or bacteria? — Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen in a forest if there were no fungi or bacteria? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 77 «Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 4 · ★ · Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things

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What would happen in a forest if there were no fungi or bacteria?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fungi · **What happens:** happen, be · **To what, where:** forest

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 77 «Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things» of the world 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/world/77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things:t4:1
# text = What would happen in a forest if there were no fungi or bacteria?
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	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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	fungi	fungus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	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 |  |  |  | a forest |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in forest=Location |
| 2 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | no fungi or bacteria |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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Nothing at all would change

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things:t4:o1:1
# 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 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Dead leaves and logs would pile up and not rot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things:t4:o2:1
# text = Dead leaves and logs would pile up and not rot
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	logs	log	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	pile	pile	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	rot	rot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pile up** | would | Dead leaves and logs |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **rot** | infinitive | Dead leaves and logs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Trees would grow twice as fast with nothing to eat their leaves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things:t4:o3:1
# text = Trees would grow twice as fast with nothing to eat their leaves
1	Trees	tree	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	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | Trees |  |  |  |  | with nothing; fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Trees *not said here* | Trees's leaves |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The soil would become richer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things:t4:o4:1
# text = The soil would become richer
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	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	richer	rich	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | would | the soil |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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