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title: What would happen to a pale moth on a soot-blackened tree? — Masters of camouflage · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to a pale moth on a soot-blackened tree? Test 7 · ★ 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 7 · ★ · Masters of camouflage

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What would happen to a pale moth on a soot-blackened tree?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **What happens:** happen, blacken · **To what, where:** blackened tree

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:189-masters-of-camouflage:t7:1
# text = What would happen to a pale moth on a soot-blackened tree?
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	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	moth	moth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	soot	soot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	blackened	blacken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	tree	tree	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 |  |  |  | a blackened tree |  | to a pale moth | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on tree=Location |
| 2 | **blacken** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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Birds would ignore it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:189-masters-of-camouflage:t7:o1:1
# text = Birds would ignore it
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	ignore	ignore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ignore** | would | Birds | it |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It would become invisible

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:189-masters-of-camouflage:t7:o2:1
# text = It would become invisible
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	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | would | It |  |  |  |  | invisible *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would turn black at once to match the bark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:189-masters-of-camouflage:t7:o3:1
# text = It would turn black at once to match the bark
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	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	match	match	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | It |  |  |  |  | black *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory |
| 2 | **match** | to-infinitive |  | the bark |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Birds would spot it more easily

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:189-masters-of-camouflage:t7:o4:1
# text = Birds would spot it more easily
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	spot	spot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spot** | would | Birds | it |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination |

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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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