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title: A paramecium bumps into a stone. With no brain, what can it do? — The microscopic world: cells, the buil… · tree and pragmatics
description: A paramecium bumps into a stone. With no brain, what can it do? Test 10 of lesson 256 «The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life» 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 wrong.
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# Test 10 · The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life

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A paramecium bumps into a stone. With no brain, what can it do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** paramecium · **What happens:** bump, do · **To what, where:** stone

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This is test 10 of lesson 256 «The microscopic world: cells, the building blocks of life» 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/256-the-microscopic-world-cells-the-building-blocks-of-life/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A paramecium bumps into a stone.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:256-the-microscopic-world-cells-the-building-blocks-of-life:t10:1
# text = A paramecium bumps into a stone.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	paramecium	paramecium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bumps	bump	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bump** | present | a paramecium |  |  | a stone |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into stone=Location |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* With no brain, what can it do?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:256-the-microscopic-world-cells-the-building-blocks-of-life:t10:2
# text = With no brain, what can it do?
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | can | paramecium |  |  |  |  | with no brain | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Grow a brain to think about it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:256-the-microscopic-world-cells-the-building-blocks-of-life:t10:o1:1
# text = Grow a brain to think about it
1	Grow	grow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | imperative | you *not said here* | a brain |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brain=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about brain | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Call for help from all the other cells close by

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:256-the-microscopic-world-cells-the-building-blocks-of-life:t10:o2:1
# text = Call for help from all the other cells close by
1	Call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	close	close	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for help | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient |
| 2 | **close** | present | all other cells |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Reverse its tiny hairs and swim another way

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:256-the-microscopic-world-cells-the-building-blocks-of-life:t10:o3:1
# text = Reverse its tiny hairs and swim another way
1	Reverse	reverse	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hairs	hair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	swim	swim	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reverse** | imperative | you *not said here* | its tiny hairs |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
| 2 | **swim** | infinitive | you *not said here* | another way |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing, it stays stuck forever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:256-the-microscopic-world-cells-the-building-blocks-of-life:t10:o4:1
# text = Nothing, it stays stuck forever
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | present | Nothing |  |  |  |  | forever, stuck *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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