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title: Why can a jumping spider live where no plants grow, near the top of… — Mountains of the world: snow leopards,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why can a jumping spider live where no plants grow, near the top of Everest? Test 11 of lesson 183 «Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 11 · Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese,…

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Why can a jumping spider live where no plants grow, near the top of Everest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** jumping spider, plants · **What happens:** jump, live, grow · **To what, where:** top

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This is test 11 of lesson 183 «Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders» 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/183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders:t11:1
# text = Why can a jumping spider live where no plants grow, near the top of Everest?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	near	near	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Everest	Everest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | can | a jumping spider |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | present | no plants |  |  | the top of Everest |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near top=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 {#o1}

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It flies down every day to hunt in the valleys far below

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders:t11:o1:1
# text = It flies down every day to hunt in the valleys far below
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	below	below	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly down** | present | It |  |  |  | day |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hunt** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the valleys |  | below *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in valley=Location |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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It eats rocks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders:t11:o2:1
# text = It eats rocks
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | It | rocks |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The wind carries insects up the mountain for it to eat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders:t11:o3:1
# text = The wind carries insects up the mountain for it to eat
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | present | the wind | insects |  |  |  | up the mountain; for mountain | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the wind *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It does not need any food at all for months

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders:t11:o4:1
# text = It does not need any food at all for months
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **need** | present · do-support | It | any food |  | all | month |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=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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