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title: Why would being bright be safer than hiding for a bitter ladybird? — Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare b… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why would being bright be safer than hiding for a bitter ladybird? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 367 «Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 9 · ★ · Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white a…

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Why would being bright be safer than hiding for a bitter ladybird?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, hide

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 367 «Animal colours: pink flamingos, rare blue animals, white albinos and black panthers» 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/367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers:t9:1
# text = Why would being bright be safer than hiding for a bitter ladybird?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
4	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	safer	safe	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	ladybird	ladybird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would |  |  |  |  |  | safe *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for a bitter ladybird | vn concealment-16-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Birds learn that red and black means a nasty taste

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers:t9:o1:1
# text = Birds learn that red and black means a nasty taste
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | present | Birds |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | red | a nasty taste |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taste=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Bright colours keep it warm on cold days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers:t9:o2:1
# text = Bright colours keep it warm on cold days
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | Bright colours | it |  |  | day | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Birds cannot see red

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers:t9:o3:1
# text = Birds cannot see red
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | can | Birds | red |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer red=Stimulus |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Bright colours make it fly faster than birds can chase

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:367-animal-colours-pink-flamingos-rare-blue-animals-white-albinos-and-black-panthers:t9:o4:1
# text = Bright colours make it fly faster than birds can chase
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
7	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	chase	chase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Bright colours | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fly** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **chase** | can | birds |  |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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