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description: «squirrels forget where they bury nuts lol useless» Why is that useful for the forest? Test 10 of lesson 131 «Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 10 · Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and…

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«squirrels forget where they bury nuts lol useless» Why is that useful for the forest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** squirrels · **What happens:** forget, bury, be · **To what, where:** nuts

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This is test 10 of lesson 131 «Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos» 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/131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat:t10:1
# text = «squirrels forget where they bury nuts lol useless» Why is that useful for the forest?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	squirrels	squirrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	forget	forget	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bury	bury	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
11	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** *in a quote* | present | squirrels |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bury** *in a quote* | present | squirrels *= squirrel* | nuts |  |  |  | useless *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | squirrels *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the forest; useful *property* | tree rules |

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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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Nothing grows from a buried nut, it just rots away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat:t10:o1:1
# text = Nothing grows from a buried nut, it just rots away
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	rots	rot	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | Nothing |  |  |  |  | from a buried nut | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from nut=Patient |
| 2 | **bury** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rot away** | present | nut |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Forgotten nuts grow into new trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat:t10:o2:1
# text = Forgotten nuts grow into new trees
1	Forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | present | Forgotten nuts |  |  |  |  | into new trees *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into tree=Result |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Forgotten nuts turn into stones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat:t10:o3:1
# text = Forgotten nuts turn into stones
1	Forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | present | Forgotten nuts |  |  | stones |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into stone=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The nuts feed the worms only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat:t10:o4:1
# text = The nuts feed the worms only
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | present | the nuts |  | the worms |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Recipient |

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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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