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title: What would happen to a bumblebee bat on a cold night without food? — Record-breakers: the biggest and the s… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to a bumblebee bat on a cold night without food? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 186 «Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 7 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest

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What would happen to a bumblebee bat on a cold night without food?

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

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This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 186 «Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest» 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/186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest:t7:1
# text = What would happen to a bumblebee bat on a cold night without food?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	bumblebee	bumblebee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	without	without	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  | night | to a bumblebee bat; without food | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It would grow bigger and stronger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest:t7:o1:1
# text = It would grow bigger and stronger
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | It |  |  |  |  | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, tiny bodies keep their heat best of all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest:t7:o2:1
# text = Nothing, tiny bodies keep their heat best of all
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | Nothing tiny bodies | bodies's heat |  |  |  | well *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme |
| 2 | **heat** |  | bodies *= body* |  |  |  |  |  | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |

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

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It would lose heat fast and be in danger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest:t7:o3:1
# text = It would lose heat fast and be in danger
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | would | It | heat |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  | danger |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It would sweat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest:t7:o4:1
# text = It would sweat
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sweat	sweat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweat** | would | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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