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title: Why is a squid's glowing belly like camouflage? — The microscopic world: bacteria, good… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why is a squid's glowing belly like camouflage? Test 11 of lesson 257 «The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad» 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 · The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad

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Why is a squid's glowing belly like camouflage?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** glow, be · **To what, where:** glowing belly

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This is test 11 of lesson 257 «The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad» 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/257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad:t11:1
# text = Why is a squid's glowing belly like camouflage?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	squid	squid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	belly	belly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	camouflage	camouflage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a squid's glowing belly |  |  |  | like camouflage | 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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It shows the squid's friends where it is

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad:t11:o1:1
# text = It shows the squid's friends where it is
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	squid	squid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	acl:relcl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | It |  | the squid's friends |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present | squid | the squid's friends *not said here* |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It makes the squid look just like a fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad:t11:o2:1
# text = It makes the squid look just like a fish
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	squid	squid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	xcomp	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | It |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | present | the squid |  |  |  |  | like a fish | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It hides the squid's dark shadow against the moonlit water above

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad:t11:o3:1
# text = It hides the squid's dark shadow against the moonlit water above
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	squid	squid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	against	against	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	moonlit	moonlit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	above	above	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | It | the squid's dark shadow |  | the moonlit water |  | above *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shadow=Patient against water=Location |
| 2 | **shadow** |  | the squid |  |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It blinds the hunter for ever with one very bright flash of white light

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad:t11:o4:1
# text = It blinds the hunter for ever with one very bright flash of white light
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	blinds	blind	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	2	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blind** | present | It | the hunter |  |  |  | with one bright flash of white light | tree rules |
| 2 | **flash** |  | white light |  |  |  |  |  | nom flash «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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