Test 2 · ★ · Leaves, fruit and colour in nature

If a zoo fed its flamingos only plain food with no pink pigments, what would happen?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: pink pigments · What happens: feed, happen · To what, where: zoo

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 28 «Leaves, fruit and colour in nature» of the chemistry 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 fed	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 zoo	det
3	zoo	zoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fed	nsubj:pass
4	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 flamingos	nmod:poss
6	flamingos	flamingo	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fed	obj
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 food	advmod
8	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 food	amod
9	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fed	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 pigments	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 pigments	det
12	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pigments	amod
13	pigments	pigment	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 happen	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 happen	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 happen	aux
17	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 pigments	acl:relcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	participle · passive		a zoo				with no pink pigments; plain food obl	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient flamingo=Theme
2	happen	would	no pink pigments						vn occur-48.3-1 «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

They would turn green like leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur 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	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 turn	xcomp
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 leaves	case
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	obl

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

Option 2

They would turn bright orange

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur 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	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 orange	amod
5	orange	orange	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	They	bright orange					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent orange=Theme

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

They would slowly turn white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur 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	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turn	xcomp

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

Option 4

They would stay pink for ever and ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 ever	case
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 stay	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ever	cc
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 ever	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	They					pink property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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