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description: Why might penguins whose eggs sat in melting slush not hatch, while those on stone nests did? Test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 170 «Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Test 8 · ★★★ · Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and…

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Why might penguins whose eggs sat in melting slush not hatch, while those on stone nests did?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** penguins, those · **What happens:** sit, melt, not hatch, do · **To what, where:** melting slush

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This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 170 «Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins» 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/170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins:t8:1
# text = Why might penguins whose eggs sat in melting slush not hatch, while those on stone nests did?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	melting	melt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	slush	slush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	hatch	hatch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	nests	nest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | penguins |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **melt** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **hatch** | infinitive | penguins *not said here* |  |  | melting slush |  |  | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **do** | past | those |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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Slush is too warm for eggs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins:t8:o1:1
# text = Slush is too warm for eggs
1	Slush	slush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Slush |  |  |  |  | for eggs; warm *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Stones are full of food for the chicks to eat when they hatch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins:t8:o2:1
# text = Stones are full of food for the chicks to eat when they hatch
1	Stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chicks	chick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hatch	hatch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Stones |  |  |  |  | of food; for the chicks; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Stones *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hatch** | present | Stones *= stone* |  |  |  |  |  | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The stones kept the eggs above the cold meltwater

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins:t8:o3:1
# text = The stones kept the eggs above the cold meltwater
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	above	above	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	meltwater	meltwater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | the stones | the eggs |  | the cold meltwater |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent egg=Theme above meltwater=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Seals cannot reach stones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins:t8:o4:1
# text = Seals cannot reach stones
1	Seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **reach** | can | Seals | stones |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent stone=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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