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title: Why might city coyotes be more active at night than country ones? — Big wild animals in cities: wild boar,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why might city coyotes be more active at night than country ones? Test 6 · ★★ of lesson 368 «Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monkeys and leopards» 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 6 · ★★ · Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monk…

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Why might city coyotes be more active at night than country ones?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** city coyotes · **What happens:** be

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 368 «Big wild animals in cities: wild boar, deer, coyotes, monkeys and leopards» 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/368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards:t6:1
# text = Why might city coyotes be more active at night than country ones?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
3	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	coyotes	coyote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | might | city coyotes |  |  |  | night | than country ones; active *property* | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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City lights make them sleepy in the day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards:t6:o1:1
# text = City lights make them sleepy in the day
1	City	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | City lights | them *= they* |  |  | day | sleepy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Coyotes cannot see anything at all in bright daylight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards:t6:o2:1
# text = Coyotes cannot see anything at all in bright daylight
1	Coyotes	coyote	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	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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There are fewer people and cars around at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards:t6:o3:1
# text = There are fewer people and cars around at night
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	around	around	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | fewer people and cars |  |  | there | night | around *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Night is warmer in cities

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:368-big-wild-animals-in-cities-wild-boar-deer-coyotes-monkeys-and-leopards:t6:o4:1
# text = Night is warmer in cities
1	Night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Night |  |  | cities |  | warm *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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