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title: Where would you look for some of the toughest bacteria on Earth? — The microscopic world: bacteria, good… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where would you look for some of the toughest bacteria on Earth? Test 9 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 wrong.
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# Test 9 · The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad

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Where would you look for some of the toughest bacteria on Earth?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** look

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad:t9:1
# text = Where would you look for some of the toughest bacteria on Earth?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	toughest	tough	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | would | you |  |  |  |  | for some | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for some=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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In near-boiling hot springs and in Antarctic ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad:t9:o1:1
# text = In near-boiling hot springs and in Antarctic ice
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	near	near	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
5	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	springs	spring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Antarctic	Antarctic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boil** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only in clean hospitals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad:t9:o2:1
# text = Only in clean hospitals
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Nowhere, bacteria cannot live in hard places

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad:t9:o3:1
# text = Nowhere, bacteria cannot live in hard places
1	Nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **live** | can | bacteria |  |  | hard places |  | nowhere *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only in warm bathrooms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad:t9:o4:1
# text = Only in warm bathrooms
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bathrooms	bathroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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