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title: What would happen if a horned lizard squirted blood at a hawk? — Defences: skunks, porcupines, hedgehog… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a horned lizard squirted blood at a hawk? Test 8 of lesson 248 «Defences: skunks, porcupines, hedgehogs and armour» 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 8 · Defences: skunks, porcupines, hedgehogs and armour

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What would happen if a horned lizard squirted blood at a hawk?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** horned lizard · **What happens:** happen, squirt, blood

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This is test 8 of lesson 248 «Defences: skunks, porcupines, hedgehogs and armour» 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/248-defences-skunks-porcupines-hedgehogs-and-armour/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:248-defences-skunks-porcupines-hedgehogs-and-armour:t8:1
# text = What would happen if a horned lizard squirted blood at a hawk?
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	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	horned	horned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lizard	lizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	squirted	squirt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | at a hawk | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at hawk=Location |
| 2 | **squirt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 3 | **blood** *a condition, not said to happen* |  | a horned lizard |  |  |  |  |  | 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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The hawk would be blinded for life by the blood in its eyes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:248-defences-skunks-porcupines-hedgehogs-and-armour:t8:o1:1
# text = The hawk would be blinded for life by the blood in its eyes
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	blinded	blind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blind** | would · passive |  | the hawk |  | hawk's eyes |  | for life; by the blood | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The hawk would fall asleep straight away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:248-defences-skunks-porcupines-hedgehogs-and-armour:t8:o2:1
# text = The hawk would fall asleep straight away
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | would | the hawk |  |  |  |  | asleep, away *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The hawk would turn blue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:248-defences-skunks-porcupines-hedgehogs-and-armour:t8:o3:1
# text = The hawk would turn blue
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hawk	hawk	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	blue	blue	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 hawk |  |  |  |  | blue *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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

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Not much, the blood tastes nasty to dogs but not to birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:248-defences-skunks-porcupines-hedgehogs-and-armour:t8:o4:1
# text = Not much, the blood tastes nasty to dogs but not to birds
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	tastes	taste	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	case	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** | present | the blood | dogs but birds |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme dog=Attribute |

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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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