Test 6 · Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatu…

What would happen if a beach hotel kept its bright lights on all night in hatching season?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: beach hotel, hotel · What happens: happen, keep, light · To what, where: bright lights

This is test 6 of lesson 133 «Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures» 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	_	8 kept	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hotel	det
6	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hotel	compound
7	hotel	hotel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	nsubj
8	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 lights	nmod:poss
10	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lights	amod
11	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 kept	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 night	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 season	case
16	hatching	hatching	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 season	compound
17	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep a condition, not said to happen	past	a beach hotel	hotel's bright lights	night; season	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
3	light		hotel			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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 hatchlings would find the sea faster, as the lights show them the way

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hatchlings	det
2	hatchlings	hatchling	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 find	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj
7	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 find	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 show	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 show	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lights	det
11	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 show	nsubj
12	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 find	parataxis
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 show	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	the hatchlings	the sea				fast property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Topic
2	show	present	the lights	hatchlings = hatchling					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient way=Topic

Option 2

Nothing would change at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	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 3 · ✓ the right answer

Hatchlings could crawl towards the lights instead of the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hatchlings	hatchling	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crawl	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 crawl	aux
3	crawl	crawl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	towards	towards	ADP	_	6 lights	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lights	det
6	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crawl	obl
7	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	10 sea	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 instead	fixed
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crawl	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl	could	Hatchlings			the lights		instead the sea	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards light=Destination

Option 4

The turtles would stay in the nest for a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 turtles	det
2	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stay	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	aux
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 nest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nest	det
7	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 year	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	the turtles			the nest	year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nest=Location

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