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title: What would happen if a bearded dragon were kept in a cold tank with… — Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and liz… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a bearded dragon were kept in a cold tank with no warm rock? Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 146 «Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 4 · ★★ · Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothin…

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What would happen if a bearded dragon were kept in a cold tank with no warm rock?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** happen, keep · **To what, where:** bearded dragon, cold tank

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This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 146 «Shrek's dragon: real «dragons» and lizards, and why nothing breathes fire» 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/146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards:t4:1
# text = What would happen if a bearded dragon were kept in a cold tank with no warm rock?
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	_	9	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	bearded	bearded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tank	tank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
16	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	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 · passive |  | a bearded dragon |  | a cold tank with no warm rock |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in tank=Location |

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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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It would move faster to keep warm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards:t4:o1:1
# text = It would move faster to keep warm
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | would | It |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would make its own heat and be fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards:t4:o2:1
# text = It would make its own heat and be fine
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | would | It | its own heat |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material heat=Product |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **heat** |  | its *= it* |  |  |  |  |  | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |

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

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It would be slow and sluggish, because reptiles warm up from outside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards:t4:o3:1
# text = It would be slow and sluggish, because reptiles warm up from outside
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	sluggish	sluggish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	warm	warm	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | It |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **warm up** | present | reptiles |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It would grow thick fur to stay warm, like a bear in the snow

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards:t4:o4:1
# text = It would grow thick fur to stay warm, like a bear in the snow
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | It | thick fur |  | the snow |  | like a bear | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fur=Theme |
| 2 | **stay** | to-infinitive |  | thick fur *not said here* |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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