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# Test 8 · ★★★ · Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and h…

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In a hermit crab queue by size, what would happen if the biggest crab did not move into the new shell?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** biggest crab · **What happens:** happen, not move · **To what, where:** crab queue, new shell

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This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 330 «Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs» 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/330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs:t8:1
# text = In a hermit crab queue by size, what would happen if the biggest crab did not move into the new shell?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	queue	queue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  | a crab queue by size |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in queue=Location |
| 2 | **not** **move** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | the biggest crab |  |  | the new shell |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into shell=Trajectory |

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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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Nobody else could move up, and the whole chain would stop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs:t8:o1:1
# text = Nobody else could move up, and the whole chain would stop
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
2	else	else	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move up** | could | Nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | would | the whole chain |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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All the crabs would get new shells anyway

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs:t8:o2:1
# text = All the crabs would get new shells anyway
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	crabs	crab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	anyway	anyway	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | all crabs | new shells |  |  |  | anyway *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shell=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The smallest crab would take the big shell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs:t8:o3:1
# text = The smallest crab would take the big shell
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | would | the smallest crab | the big shell |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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The shell would grow to fit the next crab

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs:t8:o4:1
# text = The shell would grow to fit the next crab
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | would | the shell |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fit** | to-infinitive | the shell *not said here* | the next crab |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crab=Patient |

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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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