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title: What would happen to the fish in a lake if ice sank instead of float… — Rivers, lakes and ponds · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to the fish in a lake if ice sank instead of floating? Test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Rivers, lakes and ponds» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 3 · ★★★ · Rivers, lakes and ponds

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
What would happen to the fish in a lake if ice sank instead of floating?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ice · **What happens:** happen, sink, float · **To what, where:** lake

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This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Rivers, lakes and ponds» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds:t3:1
# text = What would happen to the fish in a lake if ice sank instead of floating?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	15	mark	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	floating	float	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  | a lake |  | to the fish | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in lake=Location |
| 2 | **sink** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | ice |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **float** | gerund | ice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The fish would live on top of the sunken ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds:t3:o1:1
# text = The fish would live on top of the sunken ice
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	sunken	sunken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | would | the fish |  |  | top of the sunken ice |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Location |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The lake would freeze from the bottom up, and many fish could not survive

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds:t3:o2:1
# text = The lake would freeze from the bottom up, and many fish could not survive
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	freeze	freeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	survive	survive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **freeze up** | would | the lake |  |  | the bottom |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **survive** | could | many fish |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nothing, fish like ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds:t3:o3:1
# text = Nothing, fish like ice
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The lake would slowly turn into a river and flow away down to the sea

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds:t3:o4:1
# text = The lake would slowly turn into a river and flow away down to the sea
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	flow	flow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | the lake |  |  | a river |  | slowly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into river=Trajectory |
| 2 | **flow away** | infinitive | the lake *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the sea; away, down *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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