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title: my cartoon chameleon turned tartan on a tartan rug and vanished. real? — How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry · tree and pragmatics
description: my cartoon chameleon turned tartan on a tartan rug and vanished. real? Test 1 of lesson 51 «How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry» 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 wrong.
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# Test 1 · How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry

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my cartoon chameleon turned tartan on a tartan rug and vanished. real?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cartoon chameleon · **What happens:** turn, vanish · **To what, where:** tartan, tartan rug, real

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This is test 1 of lesson 51 «How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry» 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/51-how-animals-hide/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:51-how-animals-hide:t1:1
# text = my cartoon chameleon turned tartan on a tartan rug and vanished. real?
1	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	chameleon	chameleon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	tartan	tartan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	tartan	tartan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	rug	rug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
13	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | my cartoon chameleon | tartan |  | a tartan rug |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tartan=Theme |
| 2 | **vanish** | past | my cartoon chameleon *not said here* | real |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 {#o1}

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No, chameleons never change colour at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:51-how-animals-hide:t1:o1:1
# text = No, chameleons never change colour at all
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	chameleons	chameleon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **change** | present | chameleons | colour |  | all |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, but only red and green tartan, not the blue sort

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:51-how-animals-hide:t1:o2:1
# text = Yes, but only red and green tartan, not the blue sort
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tartan	tartan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, they copy any pattern they sit on

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:51-how-animals-hide:t1:o3:1
# text = Yes, they copy any pattern they sit on
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	copy	copy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **copy** | present | they | any pattern |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Theme |
| 2 | **sit on** | present | they | any pattern *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pattern=Theme |

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

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No, they can't copy patterns; colour changes mostly for mood and warmth

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:51-how-animals-hide:t1:o4:1
# text = No, they can't copy patterns; colour changes mostly for mood and warmth
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	copy	copy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	patterns	pattern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	warmth	warmth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **copy** | can | they | patterns |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Theme |
| 2 | **change** | present | colour |  |  |  |  | for mood and warmth; mostly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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