Test 6 · ★★ · The aquarium: the coral reef tank

What would happen to a reef if the sea stayed too warm for a long time?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: sea · What happens: happen, stay

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	_	6 reef	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 reef	det
6	reef	reef	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 stayed	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stayed	nsubj
10	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 warm	advmod
12	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stayed	xcomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 time	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 time	det
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 time	amod
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 warm	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a reef	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stay a condition, not said to happen	past	the sea					warm 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

Nothing, warm water is always good for coral

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 water	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 water	amod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 good	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 good	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 good	advmod
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 coral	case
9	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 good	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing warm water					for coral; always, good property	tree rules

Option 2

The fish would turn white too

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 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turn	xcomp
6	too	too	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the fish					white property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The corals would bleach and could 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	could	could	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	could	the corals not said here						tree rules

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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