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title: In a video game your turtle hero swims in a cold sea and keeps its b… — Turtles and tortoises · tree and pragmatics
description: In a video game your turtle hero swims in a cold sea and keeps its body warm by itself like a dog. Which real turtle comes closest to that? Test 6 of lesson 31 «Turtles and tortoises» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 6 · Turtles and tortoises

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In a video game your turtle hero swims in a cold sea and keeps its body warm by itself like a dog. Which real turtle comes closest to that?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** turtle hero, real turtle · **What happens:** swim, keep, come · **To what, where:** video game, body

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This is test 6 of lesson 31 «Turtles and tortoises» 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/31-turtles-and-tortoises/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a video game your turtle hero swims in a cold sea and keeps its body warm by itself like a dog.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:31-turtles-and-tortoises:t6:1
# text = In a video game your turtle hero swims in a cold sea and keeps its body warm by itself like a dog.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	swims	swim	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obl	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | present | your turtle hero |  |  | a video game |  | in a cold sea | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in game=Trajectory |
| 2 | **keep** | present | your turtle hero *not said here* | hero's body |  |  |  | by hero; like a dog; warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent body=Theme by itself=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:* Which real turtle comes closest to that?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:31-turtles-and-tortoises:t6:2
# text = Which real turtle comes closest to that?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	obj	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	closest	close	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	parataxis	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | real turtle |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The leatherback, whose huge body stays warm in cold seas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:31-turtles-and-tortoises:t6:o1:1
# text = The leatherback, whose huge body stays warm in cold seas
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	leatherback	leatherback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | present | the leatherback |  |  | cold seas |  | warm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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No turtle can be in cold water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:31-turtles-and-tortoises:t6:o2:1
# text = No turtle can be in cold water
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can | no turtle |  |  | cold water |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The box turtle in a garden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:31-turtles-and-tortoises:t6:o3:1
# text = The box turtle in a garden
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The painted turtle under ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:31-turtles-and-tortoises:t6:o4:1
# text = The painted turtle under ice
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=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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