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title: Adult male reindeer usually drop their antlers in early winter. What… — The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy ow… · tree and pragmatics
description: Adult male reindeer usually drop their antlers in early winter. What does this suggest about reindeer with antlers at Christmas? Test 3 of lesson 106 «The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and reindeer» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmat
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# Test 3 · The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and rei…

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Adult male reindeer usually drop their antlers in early winter. What does this suggest about reindeer with antlers at Christmas?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Adult male reindeer, this · **What happens:** drop, suggest · **To what, where:** antlers

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This is test 3 of lesson 106 «The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and reindeer» 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/106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Adult male reindeer usually drop their antlers in early winter.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer:t3:1
# text = Adult male reindeer usually drop their antlers in early winter.
1	Adult	adult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	drop	drop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	antlers	antler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | present | Adult male reindeer | reindeer's antlers |  |  | winter | usually *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antler=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What does this suggest about reindeer with antlers at Christmas?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer:t3:2
# text = What does this suggest about reindeer with antlers at Christmas?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	suggest	suggest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	antlers	antler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present · do-support | this |  |  |  |  | about reindeer with antlers at Christmas | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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They must be moose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer:t3:o1:1
# text = They must be moose
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	moose	moose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | must | They | moose |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Many of them are probably females

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer:t3:o2:1
# text = Many of them are probably females
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	females	female	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Many of them | females |  |  |  | probably *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They are all babies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer:t3:o3:1
# text = They are all babies
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | They | babies |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They are all very old males

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer:t3:o4:1
# text = They are all very old males
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	males	male	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | They | old males |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |

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