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title: What would happen to a coral reef if the sea stayed too hot for a ve… — Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to a coral reef if the sea stayed too hot for a very long time? Test 5 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore» 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 5 · ★★ · Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore

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What would happen to a coral reef if the sea stayed too hot for a very long time?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sea · **What happens:** happen, stay

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Coral reefs, rockpools and the seashore» 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/9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore:t5:1
# text = What would happen to a coral reef if the sea stayed too hot for a very long time?
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	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	coral	coral	NOUN	NN	_	7	compound	_	_
7	reef	reef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	too	too	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	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 coral reef | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stay** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the sea |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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The corals would move to deeper water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore:t5:o1:1
# text = The corals would move to deeper water
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	corals	coral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	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 | **move** | would | the corals |  |  | deeper water |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to water=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, corals love heat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore:t5:o2:1
# text = Nothing, corals love heat
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	corals	coral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present | Nothing corals | heat |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heat=Stimulus |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The corals would grow faster and bigger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore:t5:o3:1
# text = The corals would grow faster and bigger
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	corals	coral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | the corals |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The corals would bleach, starve and die

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:9-coral-reefs-rockpools-and-the-seashore:t5:o4:1
# text = The corals would bleach, starve and die
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	corals	coral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	bleach	bleach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	starve	starve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bleach** | would | the corals |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **starve** | infinitive | the corals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **die** | infinitive | the corals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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