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title: In a cartoon a chameleon sits on a tartan blanket and turns tartan.… — More animal myths: red rags, camel hum… · tree and pragmatics
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# Test 8 · ★★★ · More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows…

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In a cartoon a chameleon sits on a tartan blanket and turns tartan. What is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** chameleon · **What happens:** sit, turn, be · **To what, where:** cartoon, tartan

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This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 154 «More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats» 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/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon a chameleon sits on a tartan blanket and turns tartan.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons:t8:1
# text = In a cartoon a chameleon sits on a tartan blanket and turns tartan.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chameleon	chameleon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	tartan	tartan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	tartan	tartan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | a chameleon |  |  | a cartoon |  | on a tartan blanket | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cartoon=Location |
| 2 | **turn** | present | a chameleon *not said here* | tartan |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tartan=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 is true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons:t8:2
# text = What is true?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Chameleons never change colour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons:t8:o1:1
# text = Chameleons never change colour
1	Chameleons	chameleon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **change** | present | Chameleons | colour |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient |

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

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Chameleons change colour mainly for mood, warmth and signals and cannot copy patterns like that

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons:t8:o2:1
# text = Chameleons change colour mainly for mood, warmth and signals and cannot copy patterns like that
1	Chameleons	chameleon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	mainly	mainly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	warmth	warmth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	signals	signal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	copy	copy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
15	patterns	pattern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present | Chameleons | colour |  |  |  | for mood and warmth and signals; mainly *property* | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent colour=Theme for mood=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **not** **copy** | can | Chameleons *not said here* | patterns |  |  |  | like that | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Chameleons only change colour on blankets and cushions, never on trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons:t8:o3:1
# text = Chameleons only change colour on blankets and cushions, never on trees
1	Chameleons	chameleon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	blankets	blanket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	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 | **change** | present | Chameleons | colour |  | blankets and cushions |  | on trees | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Chameleons copy any pattern exactly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons:t8:o4:1
# text = Chameleons copy any pattern exactly
1	Chameleons	chameleon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	copy	copy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **copy** | present | Chameleons | any pattern |  |  |  | exactly *property* | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=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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