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title: What would happen to a pika that sat in hot sunshine all afternoon? — Mountains: life as you climb higher · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to a pika that sat in hot sunshine all afternoon? Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Mountains: life as you climb higher» 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 right.
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# Test 4 · ★★ · Mountains: life as you climb higher

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What would happen to a pika that sat in hot sunshine all afternoon?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** pika · **What happens:** happen, sit · **To what, where:** hot sunshine

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This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Mountains: life as you climb higher» 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/13-mountains-life-as-you-climb/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:13-mountains-life-as-you-climb:t4:1
# text = What would happen to a pika that sat in hot sunshine all afternoon?
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	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pika	pika	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	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 pika | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | past | a pika |  |  | hot sunshine | afternoon |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sunshine=Location |

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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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It could overheat and die

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:13-mountains-life-as-you-climb:t4:o1:1
# text = It could overheat and die
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	overheat	overheat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overheat** | could | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **die** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would fall asleep for the winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:13-mountains-life-as-you-climb:t4:o2:1
# text = It would fall asleep for the winter
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | would | It |  |  |  | winter | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would grow a thicker coat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:13-mountains-life-as-you-climb:t4:o3:1
# text = It would grow a thicker coat
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	thicker	thick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | It | a thicker coat |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location coat=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing, pikas love the heat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:13-mountains-life-as-you-climb:t4:o4:1
# text = Nothing, pikas love the heat
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	pikas	pika	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	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 pikas | the heat |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heat=Stimulus |

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