Test 6 · ★ · Where meat and fish come from, told honestly

What would happen if a farmed salmon got no pink colour in its food?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farmed salmon · What happens: happen, farm, get · To what, where: pink colour, food

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 343 «Where meat and fish come from, told honestly» 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 got	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 salmon	det
6	farmed	farm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 salmon	amod
7	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 colour	det
10	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 colour	amod
11	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 food	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 food	nmod:poss
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 colour	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	farm	participle				vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	get a condition, not said to happen	past	a farmed salmon	no pink colour	salmon's food	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

Its meat would be pale grey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 meat	nmod:poss
2	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grey	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 grey	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 grey	cop
5	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grey	amod
6	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Its meat					grey property	tree rules

Option 2

It would slowly turn into a cod

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 cod	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cod	det
7	cod	cod	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It			a cod		slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into cod=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, salmon make pink colour from water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 salmon	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 colour	amod
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 water	case
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Nothing salmon	pink colour		water			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset colour=Product from water=Material

Option 4

Its meat would be bright red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 meat	nmod:poss
2	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bright	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bright	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 bright	cop
5	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bright	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Its meat					bright property	tree rules

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