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title: What would happen if the goby left the shrimp's burrow? — Coral reef partners and tricksters: cl… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if the goby left the shrimp's burrow? Test 5 of lesson 173 «Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers» 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 wro
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# Test 5 · Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, m…

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What would happen if the goby left the shrimp's burrow?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** goby · **What happens:** happen, leave · **To what, where:** burrow

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This is test 5 of lesson 173 «Coral reef partners and tricksters: clownfish, cleaners, mimics and puffers» 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/173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers:t5:1
# text = What would happen if the goby left the shrimp's burrow?
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	goby	goby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	burrow	burrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	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 | **leave** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the goby | the shrimp's burrow |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burrow=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 {#o1}

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Nothing, because the shrimp has perfect eyes and sees danger first itself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers:t5:o1:1
# text = Nothing, because the shrimp has perfect eyes and sees danger first itself
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	advmod	_	_
13	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Nothing | perfect eyes |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | present | Nothing *not said here* | danger |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |

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

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The nearly blind shrimp would have no guard to warn it of danger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers:t5:o2:1
# text = The nearly blind shrimp would have no guard to warn it of danger
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	warn	warn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | would | the blind shrimp | no guard |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Patient |
| 2 | **warn** *speech: warn* | to-infinitive | the blind shrimp *not said here* |  | guard |  |  | of danger | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Recipient of danger=Topic |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The shrimp would dig faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers:t5:o3:1
# text = The shrimp would dig faster
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	dig	dig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | would | the shrimp |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The shrimp would see better

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:173-coral-reef-partners-and-tricksters-clownfish-cleaners-mimics-and-puffers:t5:o4:1
# text = The shrimp would see better
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | would | the shrimp |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «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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