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title: If you designed a hiding insect for a desert, what would it look like? — How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry · tree and pragmatics
description: If you designed a hiding insect for a desert, what would it look like? Test 11 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 right.
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# Test 11 · How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry

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If you designed a hiding insect for a desert, what would it look like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, insect · **What happens:** design, hide, look · **To what, where:** hiding insect, desert

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This is test 11 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:51-how-animals-hide:t11:1
# text = If you designed a hiding insect for a desert, what would it look like?
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	designed	design	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	insect	insect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **design** | past | you | a hiding insect |  |  |  | for a desert | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent insect=Result for desert=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **hide** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **look** | would | insect | a desert |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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 {#o1}

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Bright red all over, to warn every animal in the desert away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:51-how-animals-hide:t11:o1:1
# text = Bright red all over, to warn every animal in the desert away
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	over	over	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	warn	warn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **warn** *speech: warn* | to-infinitive |  |  | every animal | the desert |  | away *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Sandy coloured, flat and still like a pebble or dry twig

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:51-how-animals-hide:t11:o2:1
# text = Sandy coloured, flat and still like a pebble or dry twig
1	Sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pebble	pebble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	twig	twig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Black with white spots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:51-how-animals-hide:t11:o3:1
# text = Black with white spots
1	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bright green with shiny wings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:51-how-animals-hide:t11:o4:1
# text = Bright green with shiny wings
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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

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