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title: What would happen if a farmed salmon got no pink colour in its food? — Where meat and fish come from, told ho… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a farmed salmon got no pink colour in its food? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 343 «Where meat and fish come from, told honestly» 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 wrong.
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# Test 6 · ★ · Where meat and fish come from, told honestly

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What would happen if a farmed salmon got no pink colour in its food?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** farmed salmon · **What happens:** happen, farm, get · **To what, where:** pink colour, food

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 343 «Where meat and fish come from, told honestly» 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/343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly:t6:1
# text = What would happen if a farmed salmon got no pink colour in its food?
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	farmed	farm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
10	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	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 | **farm** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a farmed salmon | no pink colour |  | salmon's food |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus |

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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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Its meat would be pale grey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly:t6:o1:1
# text = Its meat would be pale grey
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Its meat |  |  |  |  | grey *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would slowly turn into a cod

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly:t6:o2:1
# text = It would slowly turn into a cod
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	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cod	cod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Nothing, salmon make pink colour from water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly:t6:o3:1
# text = Nothing, salmon make pink colour from water
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Nothing salmon | pink colour |  | water |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset colour=Product from water=Material |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Its meat would be bright red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:343-where-meat-and-fish-come-from-told-honestly:t6:o4:1
# text = Its meat would be bright red
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Its meat |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | tree rules |

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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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