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title: «grasshoppers going mad today, it's boiling» Why would they chirp fa… — The garden in summer: flowers, aphids,… · tree and pragmatics
description: «grasshoppers going mad today, it's boiling» Why would they chirp faster? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 334 «The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 7 · ★ · The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flyin…

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«grasshoppers going mad today, it's boiling» Why would they chirp faster?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** grasshoppers, it · **What happens:** go, boil, chirp · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 334 «The garden in summer: flowers, aphids, ladybirds and flying ant day» 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/334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day:t7:1
# text = «grasshoppers going mad today, it's boiling» Why would they chirp faster?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	grasshoppers	grasshopper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	chirp	chirp	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
15	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | gerund | grasshoppers |  |  |  | today | mad *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **boil** *in a quote* | present · progressive | it |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **chirp** | would | grasshoppers *= grasshopper* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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They are shouting for water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day:t7:o1:1
# text = They are shouting for water
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | present · progressive | They |  |  |  |  | for water | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for water=Recipient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Heat makes their legs longer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day:t7:o2:1
# text = Heat makes their legs longer
1	Heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Heat | their legs |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset leg=Product |

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

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Grasshoppers chirp faster when it is warmer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day:t7:o3:1
# text = Grasshoppers chirp faster when it is warmer
1	Grasshoppers	grasshopper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	chirp	chirp	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chirp** | present | Grasshoppers |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | warm *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They chirp faster when it is cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:334-the-garden-in-summer-flowers-aphids-ladybirds-and-flying-ant-day:t7:o4:1
# text = They chirp faster when it is cold
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	chirp	chirp	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
4	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chirp** | present | They |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |

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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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