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title: What would happen if a beach hotel kept its bright lights on all nig… — Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea tur… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a beach hotel kept its bright lights on all night in hatching season? Test 6 of lesson 133 «Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 6 · Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatu…

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What would happen if a beach hotel kept its bright lights on all night in hatching season?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** beach hotel, hotel · **What happens:** happen, keep, light · **To what, where:** bright lights

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This is test 6 of lesson 133 «Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures» 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/133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef:t6:1
# text = What would happen if a beach hotel kept its bright lights on all night in hatching season?
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	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	hotel	hotel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	hatching	hatching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a beach hotel | hotel's bright lights |  |  | night; season |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme |
| 3 | **light** |  | hotel |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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}

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The hatchlings would find the sea faster, as the lights show them the way

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef:t6:o1:1
# text = The hatchlings would find the sea faster, as the lights show them the way
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hatchlings	hatchling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | would | the hatchlings | the sea |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Topic |
| 2 | **show** | present | the lights | hatchlings *= hatchling* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient way=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing would change at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef:t6:o2:1
# text = Nothing would change at all
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | would | Nothing |  |  | all |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Hatchlings could crawl towards the lights instead of the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef:t6:o3:1
# text = Hatchlings could crawl towards the lights instead of the sea
1	Hatchlings	hatchling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	crawl	crawl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crawl** | could | Hatchlings |  |  | the lights |  | instead the sea | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards light=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The turtles would stay in the nest for a year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef:t6:o4:1
# text = The turtles would stay in the nest for a year
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	turtles	turtle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | would | the turtles |  |  | the nest | year |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nest=Location |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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