Test 4 · ★★ · The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbo…

What would happen if you fed the fish a whole pot of food every day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, feed · To what, where: whole pot, fish

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 203 «The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours» 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	_	6 fed	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 fed	nsubj
6	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fish	det
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fed	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pot	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pot	amod
11	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fed	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 food	case
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pot	nmod
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fed	obl:unmarked
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	feed a condition, not said to happen	past	you	a whole pot of food	the fish		day		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent fish=Recipient pot=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 fish would grow huge and healthy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grow	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 healthy	cc
7	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 huge	conj

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

Option 2

The water would get cleaner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the water	cleaner					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cleaner=Stimulus

Option 3

The fish would save it for winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 save	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 save	aux
4	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 save	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 winter	case
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 save	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	would	the fish	it			winter		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The leftovers would rot and foul the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 leftovers	det
2	leftovers	leftover	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rot	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 rot	aux
4	rot	rot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 foul	cc
6	foul	foul	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rot	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 foul	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rot	would	the leftovers						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	foul	infinitive	the leftovers not said here	the water					tree rules

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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