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title: If a deer could see colours like we do, what would happen to the tig… — The tiger: the biggest and strongest c… · tree and pragmatics
description: If a deer could see colours like we do, what would happen to the tiger? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 19 «The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and cunning hunter» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Test 4 · ★ · The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and c…

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If a deer could see colours like we do, what would happen to the tiger?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** deer, we, colours · **What happens:** see, do, happen

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 19 «The tiger: the biggest and strongest cat, a solitary and cunning hunter» 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/19-the-tiger/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:19-the-tiger:t4:1
# text = If a deer could see colours like we do, what would happen to the tiger?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
6	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
7	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | a deer |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **do** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **happen** | would | colours |  |  |  |  | to the tiger | 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 {#o1}

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The deer would stop eating grass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:19-the-tiger:t4:o1:1
# text = The deer would stop eating grass
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | the deer |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | the deer *not said here* | grass |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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The tiger would turn green

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:19-the-tiger:t4:o2:1
# text = The tiger would turn green
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | the tiger |  |  |  |  | green *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, the tiger would still look green

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:19-the-tiger:t4:o3:1
# text = Nothing, the tiger would still look green
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | would | Nothing |  |  |  | still | green *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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It would spot the orange tiger more easily

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:19-the-tiger:t4:o4:1
# text = It would spot the orange tiger more easily
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	spot	spot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	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 | It |  | the orange tiger |  |  | easily *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tiger=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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