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title: Why might a caribou herd climb to a windy hill on a summer day? — The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic f… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why might a caribou herd climb to a windy hill on a summer day? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 168 «The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the truth about lemmings» 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 · ★ · The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and…

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Why might a caribou herd climb to a windy hill on a summer day?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 168 «The Arctic tundra: musk oxen, arctic foxes, snowy owls and the truth about lemmings» 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/168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings:t10:1
# text = Why might a caribou herd climb to a windy hill on a summer day?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	caribou	caribou	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	climb	climb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	windy	windy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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To lay eggs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings:t10:o1:1
# text = To lay eggs
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	lay	lay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | to-infinitive |  | eggs |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To get away from the deep snow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings:t10:o2:1
# text = To get away from the deep snow
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get away** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the deep snow |  | away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from snow=Source |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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To escape clouds of mosquitoes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings:t10:o3:1
# text = To escape clouds of mosquitoes
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	escape	escape	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **escape** | to-infinitive |  | clouds of mosquitoes |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cloud=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **cloud** |  |  | mosquitoes |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To look for trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings:t10:o4:1
# text = To look for trees
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for trees | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for tree=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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