Test 7 · ★ · Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones

What would happen if the sea around a reef stayed too warm for weeks?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sea · What happens: happen, stay

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 132 «Finding Nemo: real clownfish and sea anemones» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 stayed	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stayed	nsubj
7	around	around	ADP	_	9 reef	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 reef	det
9	reef	reef	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sea	nmod
10	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 warm	advmod
12	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stayed	xcomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 weeks	case
14	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 warm	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	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	stay a condition, not said to happen	past	the sea around a reef					warm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The coral could throw out its algae and turn white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coral	det
2	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 throw	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 throw	aux
4	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 throw	compound:prt
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 algae	nmod:poss
7	algae	alga	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 throw	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 turn	cc
9	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 throw	conj
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 turn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw out	could	the coral	coral's algae					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alga=Theme
2	turn	present	the coral not said here					white property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The coral would grow faster and brighter in the warm water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coral	det
2	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 brighter	cc
7	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 faster	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 water	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 water	det
10	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 water	amod
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	the coral			the warm water		fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location

Option 3

The clownfish would turn into females

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 clownfish	det
2	clownfish	clownfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 females	case
6	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the clownfish			females			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into female=Trajectory

Option 4

Nothing at all would happen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 happen	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would	Nothing						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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