Test 11 · ★★ · The aquarium: the coral reef tank

What would happen to a sea fish put in fresh water?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, put · To what, where: sea fish, fresh water

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 90 «The aquarium: the coral reef tank» 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	to	to	ADP	_	7 fish	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fish	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fish	compound
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 fish	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 water	case
10	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 water	amod
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a sea fish	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put	participle		a sea fish not said here		fresh water			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in water=Destination

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

It would swim faster and be much happier without the salt

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	3 swim	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 swim	aux
3	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 swim	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 happier	cc
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 happier	cop
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 happier	advmod
8	happier	happy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 swim	conj
9	without	without	ADP	_	11 salt	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 salt	det
11	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	would	It					without the salt; fast property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	infinitive						happy property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It would get ill, because it needs the right saltiness

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	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 needs	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 needs	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 needs	nsubj
8	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 get	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 saltiness	det
10	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 saltiness	amod
11	saltiness	saltiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	It					ill property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	need	present	it	the right saltiness					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot saltiness=Theme

Option 3

Nothing, water is water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 water	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 water	cop
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nothing water	water					tree rules

Option 4

It would turn into a river fish

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	3 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 fish	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fish	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fish	compound
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	It					into a river fish result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into fish=Result

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