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title: What would happen if the floods stopped coming to the Amazon forest? — The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flood… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if the floods stopped coming to the Amazon forest? Test 5 of lesson 155 «The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 5 · The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fis…

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What would happen if the floods stopped coming to the Amazon forest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** floods · **What happens:** happen, stop, come · **To what, where:** Amazon forest

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This is test 5 of lesson 155 «The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas» 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/155-the-amazon-river/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t5:1
# text = What would happen if the floods stopped coming to the Amazon forest?
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	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	floods	flood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	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 | **stop** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the floods |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **come** | gerund | the floods *not said here* |  |  | the Amazon forest |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial\_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 {#o1}

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The river would get much deeper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t5:o1:1
# text = The river would get much deeper
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | the river |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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More fish would move up to live in the tree tops instead

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t5:o2:1
# text = More fish would move up to live in the tree tops instead
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move up** | would | More fish |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | to-infinitive | More fish *not said here* |  |  | the tree tops |  | instead *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in top=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing at all would change

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t5:o3:1
# text = Nothing at all would change
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Fish could no longer feed on fruit and spread seeds, and many trees and fish would suffer

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t5:o4:1
# text = Fish could no longer feed on fruit and spread seeds, and many trees and fish would suffer
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	no	no	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | could |  | Fish |  |  |  | on fruit; long *property* | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on fruit=Patient |
| 2 | **spread** | present |  | seeds |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seed=Theme |
| 3 | **suffer** | would | many trees and fish |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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