Test 3 · ★ · Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfi…

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

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sea · What happens: happen, stay

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 172 «Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams» 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 hot	advmod
12	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stayed	xcomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 weeks	case
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 weeks	amod
15	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hot	obl
16	?	?	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					hot 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 reef would turn into sand at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 reef	det
2	reef	reef	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 sand	case
6	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the reef			sand			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme into sand=Source at once=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The corals would bleach and might starve

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 corals	det
2	corals	coral	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bleach	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bleach	aux
4	bleach	bleach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 starve	cc
6	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 starve	aux
7	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bleach	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bleach	would	the corals						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	starve	might	the corals not said here						tree rules

Option 3

Nothing, corals love very hot water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 corals	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	corals	coral	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 love	nsubj
4	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 hot	advmod
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 love	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	Nothing corals	hot water					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus

Option 4

The corals would grow faster than ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 corals	det
2	corals	coral	NOUN	Number=Plur	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	than	than	ADP	_	7 ever	case
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	the corals					fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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