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title: If a zoo fed its flamingos only plain food with no pink pigments, wh… — Leaves, fruit and colour in nature · tree and pragmatics
description: If a zoo fed its flamingos only plain food with no pink pigments, what would happen? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 28 «Leaves, fruit and colour in nature» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 2 · ★ · Leaves, fruit and colour in nature

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If a zoo fed its flamingos only plain food with no pink pigments, what would happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** pink pigments · **What happens:** feed, happen · **To what, where:** zoo

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 28 «Leaves, fruit and colour in nature» of the chemistry 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/chemistry/28-colour-in-nature/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:28-colour-in-nature:t2:1
# text = If a zoo fed its flamingos only plain food with no pink pigments, what would happen?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	flamingos	flamingo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
12	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	pigments	pigment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | participle · passive |  | a zoo |  |  |  | with no pink pigments; plain food *obl* | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient flamingo=Theme |
| 2 | **happen** | would | no pink pigments |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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They would turn green like leaves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:28-colour-in-nature:t2:o1:1
# text = They would turn green like leaves
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|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	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | They |  |  |  |  | like leaves; green *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They would turn bright orange

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:28-colour-in-nature:t2:o2:1
# text = They would turn bright orange
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|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	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	orange	orange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | They | bright orange |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent orange=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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They would slowly turn white

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:28-colour-in-nature:t2:o3:1
# text = They would slowly turn white
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|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	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | They |  |  |  |  | slowly, white *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They would stay pink for ever and ever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chemistry:28-colour-in-nature:t2:o4:1
# text = They would stay pink for ever and ever
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | would | They |  |  |  |  | pink *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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