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title: What would happen if the nocturnal house kept its lights bright all… — The nocturnal house: night animals by… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if the nocturnal house kept its lights bright all through the zoo day? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 95 «The nocturnal house: night animals by red light» 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 7 · ★★ · The nocturnal house: night animals by red light

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What would happen if the nocturnal house kept its lights bright all through the zoo day?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** nocturnal house, house · **What happens:** happen, keep, light · **To what, where:** lights

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This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 95 «The nocturnal house: night animals by red light» 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/95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light:t7:1
# text = What would happen if the nocturnal house kept its lights bright all through the zoo day?
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	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	nocturnal	nocturnal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	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 | **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the nocturnal house | house's lights |  |  | day | bright *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme |
| 3 | **light** |  | house |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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The night animals would sleep while visitors came

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light:t7:o1:1
# text = The night animals would sleep while visitors came
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | would | the night animals |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | visitors |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The animals would all turn into day animals overnight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light:t7:o2:1
# text = The animals would all turn into day animals overnight
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	overnight	overnight	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | the animals |  |  |  |  | into day animals *result*; all, overnight *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into animal=Result |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Nothing, night animals are always awake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light:t7:o3:1
# text = Nothing, night animals are always awake
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	awake	awake	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** | present | night animals |  |  |  |  | always, awake *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The animals would glow in the bright light

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light:t7:o4:1
# text = The animals would glow in the bright light
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	glow	glow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | would | the animals |  |  | the bright light |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location |

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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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