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title: Why does the glow-worm's light not get hot like a bulb? — Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does the glow-worm's light not get hot like a bulb? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 37 «Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 10 · ★ · Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshop…

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Why does the glow-worm's light not get hot like a bulb?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, glow worm · **What happens:** do, not get, light · **To what, where:** light

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 37 «Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers» 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/37-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:37-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers:t10:1
# text = Why does the glow-worm's light not get hot like a bulb?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bulb	bulb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | you *not said here* | the glow worm's light |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **get** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **light** |  | the glow worm |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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It only glows for a second

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:37-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers:t10:o1:1
# text = It only glows for a second
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	glows	glow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | present | It |  |  |  | second |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Light from a chemical reaction wastes almost no energy as heat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:37-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers:t10:o2:1
# text = Light from a chemical reaction wastes almost no energy as heat
1	Light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	chemical	chemical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	reaction	reaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	wastes	waste	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **waste** | present | Light from a chemical reaction | no energy |  |  |  | as heat | vn spend\_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent energy=Duration as heat=Attribute |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It keeps the light in ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:37-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers:t10:o3:1
# text = It keeps the light in ice
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | It | the light |  | ice |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent light=Theme in ice=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It is far too small to get hot like a bulb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:37-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers:t10:o4:1
# text = It is far too small to get hot like a bulb
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
8	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bulb	bulb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | far, small *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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