--- title: ★★★ A stoat's coat is white for 4 months of the year in the far nort… — The real animals of the Wild Wood: the… · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ A stoat's coat is white for 4 months of the year in the far north and brown for the rest. A stoat lives 3 years. For how many months in all is it brown? 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A stoat lives 3 years. For how many months in all is it brown? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, coat, stoat, all · **What happens:** ★, be, live This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 405 «The real animals of the Wild Wood: the badger, the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, field-mice and hedgehogs in winter» 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/405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ A stoat's coat is white for 4 months of the year in the far north and brown for the rest. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs:t11:1 # text = ★★★ A stoat's coat is white for 4 months of the year in the far north and brown for the rest. 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 stoat stoat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 ccomp _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **★** | present | ★ | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | a stoat's coat | | | | month | white *property* | tree rules | 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. *Sentence 2:* A stoat lives 3 years. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs:t11:2 # text = A stoat lives 3 years. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stoat stoat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 6 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | a stoat | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | *Sentence 3:* For how many months in all is it brown? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs:t11:3 # text = For how many months in all is it brown? 1 For for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 3 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 9 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | all | | | | month | brown *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 32 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs:t11:o1:1 # text = 32 1 32 32 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 12 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs:t11:o2:1 # text = 12 1 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 36 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs:t11:o3:1 # text = 36 1 36 36 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} 24 ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs:t11:o4:1 # text = 24 1 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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