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title: «cicadas just appeared everywhere this year, where were they hiding» — Record-breakers: the loudest and the l… · tree and pragmatics
description: «cicadas just appeared everywhere this year, where were they hiding» Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 187 «Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived» 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 right.
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# Test 10 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived

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«cicadas just appeared everywhere this year, where were they hiding»

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cicadas · **What happens:** appear, hide

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 187 «Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived» 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/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived:t10:1
# text = «cicadas just appeared everywhere this year, where were they hiding»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	cicadas	cicada	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** *in a quote* | past | cicadas |  |  |  | year | everywhere *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hide** *in a quote* | past · progressive | cicadas *= cicada* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Underground for thirteen or seventeen years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived:t10:o1:1
# text = Underground for thirteen or seventeen years
1	Underground	underground	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	thirteen	thirteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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In the clouds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived:t10:o2:1
# text = In the clouds
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Inside trees as seeds waiting for the spring rain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived:t10:o3:1
# text = Inside trees as seeds waiting for the spring rain
1	Inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | gerund | seeds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the spring rain | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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In other countries

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived:t10:o4:1
# text = In other countries
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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