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title: What would happen if a film crew walked noisily up to a family of fo… — How nature documentaries are made: hid… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a film crew walked noisily up to a family of foxes in the open? Test 2 of lesson 394 «How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 2 · How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, dr…

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What would happen if a film crew walked noisily up to a family of foxes in the open?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** film crew · **What happens:** happen, walk · **To what, where:** family

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This is test 2 of lesson 394 «How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting» 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/394-how-nature-documentaries-are-made-hides-camera-traps-drones-and-years-of-waiting/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:394-how-nature-documentaries-are-made-hides-camera-traps-drones-and-years-of-waiting:t2:1
# text = What would happen if a film crew walked noisily up to a family of foxes in the open?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	noisily	noisily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a film crew |  |  | a family of foxes in the open |  | noisily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up family=Trajectory |

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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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The foxes would follow the crew home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:394-how-nature-documentaries-are-made-hides-camera-traps-drones-and-years-of-waiting:t2:o1:1
# text = The foxes would follow the crew home
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | would | the foxes | the crew |  |  |  | home *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crew=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The foxes would stop and pose for the camera, like people do for a photo

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:394-how-nature-documentaries-are-made-hides-camera-traps-drones-and-years-of-waiting:t2:o2:1
# text = The foxes would stop and pose for the camera, like people do for a photo
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	pose	pose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	camera	camera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | the foxes |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **pose** | infinitive | the foxes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the camera | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | present | people |  |  |  |  | for a photo | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The foxes would act the same as always

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:394-how-nature-documentaries-are-made-hides-camera-traps-drones-and-years-of-waiting:t2:o3:1
# text = The foxes would act the same as always
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	act	act	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **act** | would | the foxes | the same |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The foxes would probably stop what they were doing or run away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:394-how-nature-documentaries-are-made-hides-camera-traps-drones-and-years-of-waiting:t2:o4:1
# text = The foxes would probably stop what they were doing or run away
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | the foxes |  |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | past · progressive | foxes *= fox* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **run away** | present | the foxes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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