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title: Why would a deep-digging animal like a boar carry more radiation tha… — The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why would a deep-digging animal like a boar carry more radiation than a grazing deer? Test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 376 «The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 9 · ★★★ · The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what i…

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Why would a deep-digging animal like a boar carry more radiation than a grazing deer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** digging animal · **What happens:** dig, carry · **To what, where:** more radiation

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This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 376 «The Chornobyl zone: how wild animals came back, and what is still argued» 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/376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued:t9:1
# text = Why would a deep-digging animal like a boar carry more radiation than a grazing deer?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	digging	dig	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	radiation	radiation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	grazing	grazing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	deer	deer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **carry** | would | a digging animal like a boar | more radiation |  |  |  | than a grazing deer | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent radiation=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It eats underground fungi that pile up caesium

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued:t9:o1:1
# text = It eats underground fungi that pile up caesium
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	underground	underground	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fungi	fungus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pile	pile	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	caesium	caesium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | It | underground fungi |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fungus=Patient |
| 2 | **pile up** | present | underground fungi | caesium |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme caesium=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Deer wear thicker fur that keeps the radiation out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued:t9:o2:1
# text = Deer wear thicker fur that keeps the radiation out
1	Deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	thicker	thick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	radiation	radiation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | present | Deer | thicker fur |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent fur=Source |
| 2 | **keep out** | present | thicker fur | the radiation |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent radiation=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Boar drink more rain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued:t9:o3:1
# text = Boar drink more rain
1	Boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drink** | present | Boar | more rain |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Boar are born radioactive

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:376-the-chornobyl-zone-how-wild-animals-came-back-and-what-is-still-argued:t9:o4:1
# text = Boar are born radioactive
1	Boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	radioactive	radioactive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | present · passive |  | Boar |  |  |  | radioactive *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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