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title: In a cartoon a gopher pops up from its hole, chats all winter and ne… — Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, g… · tree and pragmatics
description: In a cartoon a gopher pops up from its hole, chats all winter and never sleeps. What is right for a steppe marmot? Test 4 of lesson 373 «Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th
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# Test 4 · Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and As…

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In a cartoon a gopher pops up from its hole, chats all winter and never sleeps. What is right for a steppe marmot?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** gopher · **What happens:** pop up, not sleep, be · **To what, where:** cartoon

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This is test 4 of lesson 373 «Ukraine's steppe: marmots, sousliks, great bustards and Askania-Nova» 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/373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon a gopher pops up from its hole, chats all winter and never sleeps.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova:t4:1
# text = In a cartoon a gopher pops up from its hole, chats all winter and never sleeps.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gopher	gopher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pops	pop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	chats	chat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	sleeps	sleep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pop up** | present | a gopher |  |  | a cartoon | winter | from gopher's hole and chats | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cartoon=Location |
| 2 | **not** **sleep** | present | a gopher *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is right for a steppe marmot?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova:t4:2
# text = What is right for a steppe marmot?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	steppe	steppe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	marmot	marmot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | for a steppe marmot; right *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It sleeps through the winter for about half the year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova:t4:o1:1
# text = It sleeps through the winter for about half the year
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sleeps	sleep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | present | It |  |  |  | winter; year |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It flies south for the winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova:t4:o2:1
# text = It flies south for the winter
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	south	south	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | present | It |  |  |  | winter | south *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It stays awake and eats all winter long under the snow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova:t4:o3:1
# text = It stays awake and eats all winter long under the snow
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | present | It |  |  |  |  | awake *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | present |  |  |  | the snow | winter | long *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It sleeps only on Sundays

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova:t4:o4:1
# text = It sleeps only on Sundays
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sleeps	sleep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | present | It |  |  |  | sunday |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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