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title: «hedgehog fell in the pond, it'll just drown» What is right? — Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how… · tree and pragmatics
description: «hedgehog fell in the pond, it'll just drown» What is right? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 214 «Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them» 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 11 · ★★ · Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them

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«hedgehog fell in the pond, it'll just drown» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** hedgehog · **What happens:** fall, drown, be · **To what, where:** pond

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 214 «Hedgehogs: spines, hibernation and how to help them» 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/214-hedgehogs-spines-hibernation-and-how-to-help-them/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:214-hedgehogs-spines-hibernation-and-how-to-help-them:t11:1
# text = «hedgehog fell in the pond, it'll just drown» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** *in a quote* | past | hedgehog |  |  | the pond |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in pond=Location |
| 2 | **drown** *in a quote* | future | hedgehog |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Hedgehogs can swim, but need a ramp or stones to climb out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:214-hedgehogs-spines-hibernation-and-how-to-help-them:t11:o1:1
# text = Hedgehogs can swim, but need a ramp or stones to climb out
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ramp	ramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | can | Hedgehogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | present | Hedgehogs *not said here* | a ramp or stones |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ramp=Theme |
| 3 | **climb out** | to-infinitive | Hedgehogs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Hedgehogs sink like stones as soon as they touch the water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:214-hedgehogs-spines-hibernation-and-how-to-help-them:t11:o2:1
# text = Hedgehogs sink like stones as soon as they touch the water
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sink	sink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	touch	touch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | present | Hedgehogs |  |  |  |  | like stones; soon *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **touch** | present | Hedgehogs *= hedgehog* | the water |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Co-Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Hedgehogs never go near water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:214-hedgehogs-spines-hibernation-and-how-to-help-them:t11:o3:1
# text = Hedgehogs never go near water
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | present | Hedgehogs |  |  | water |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near water=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Hedgehogs breathe underwater

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:214-hedgehogs-spines-hibernation-and-how-to-help-them:t11:o4:1
# text = Hedgehogs breathe underwater
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	breathe	breathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	underwater	underwater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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

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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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