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title: «tigers are bright orange, they'd never hide from a deer, obviously»… — Masters of camouflage · tree and pragmatics
description: «tigers are bright orange, they'd never hide from a deer, obviously» What is right? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 189 «Masters of camouflage» 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 6 · ★ · Masters of camouflage

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«tigers are bright orange, they'd never hide from a deer, obviously» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** tigers · **What happens:** be, not hide · **To what, where:** deer

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 189 «Masters of camouflage» 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/189-masters-of-camouflage/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:189-masters-of-camouflage:t6:1
# text = «tigers are bright orange, they'd never hide from a deer, obviously» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	obviously	obviously	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
17	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | tigers |  |  |  |  | orange *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **hide** *in a quote* | would | tigers *= tiger* |  |  | a deer |  | obviously *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from deer=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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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Right, deer always see them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:189-masters-of-camouflage:t6:o1:1
# text = Right, deer always see them
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | infinitive | deer | them *= they* |  |  |  | always *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Tigers are invisible to everyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:189-masters-of-camouflage:t6:o2:1
# text = Tigers are invisible to everyone
1	Tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Tigers |  |  |  |  | to everyone; invisible *property* | tree rules |

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

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Deer cannot see orange well, so the tiger blends into the grass for them

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:189-masters-of-camouflage:t6:o3:1
# text = Deer cannot see orange well, so the tiger blends into the grass for them
1	Deer	deer	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	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	orange	orange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	blends	blend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | can | Deer | orange |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer orange=Stimulus |
| 2 | **blend** | present | the tiger |  |  |  |  | for Deer; into the grass | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent into grass=Co-Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Deer only see orange

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:189-masters-of-camouflage:t6:o4:1
# text = Deer only see orange
1	Deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	orange	orange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Deer | orange |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer orange=Stimulus |

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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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