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title: What would happen to a salmon put in the wrong river? — Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocod… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to a salmon put in the wrong river? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 184 «Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 9 · ★ · Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
What would happen to a salmon put in the wrong river?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** happen, put · **To what, where:** salmon, wrong river

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 184 «Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal» 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/184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal:t9:1
# text = What would happen to a salmon put in the wrong river?
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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	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 |  |  |  |  |  | to a salmon | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | participle |  | a salmon *not said here* |  | the wrong river |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in river=Destination |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It might be lost, because salmon find their home river by smell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal:t9:o1:1
# text = It might be lost, because salmon find their home river by smell
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | might · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **find** | present | salmon | salmon's home river |  |  |  | by smell | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would read a map

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal:t9:o2:1
# text = It would read a map
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	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | would | It | a map |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent map=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would just stay out at sea and never lay any eggs anywhere at all

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal:t9:o3:1
# text = It would just stay out at sea and never lay any eggs anywhere at all
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	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay out** | would | It |  |  | sea |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sea=Location |
| 2 | **not** **lay** | infinitive |  | any eggs |  | all |  | anywhere *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme at all=Destination |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It would turn into a trout

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal:t9:o4:1
# text = It would turn into a trout
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	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	trout	trout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | It |  |  | a trout |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into trout=Trajectory |

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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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