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title: What else might make a long journey harder for migrating animals tod… — Migration: the great journeys · tree and pragmatics
description: What else might make a long journey harder for migrating animals today? Test 12 · ★★ of lesson 54 «Migration: the great journeys» 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 12 · ★★ · Migration: the great journeys

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What else might make a long journey harder for migrating animals today?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** make, migrate · **To what, where:** animals

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This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 54 «Migration: the great journeys» 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/54-migration-the-great-journeys/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:54-migration-the-great-journeys:t12:1
# text = What else might make a long journey harder for migrating animals today?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	else	else	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	migrating	migrate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | might |  |  |  |  | today | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset what=Product |
| 2 | **migrate** | gerund |  | animals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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Dams, roads, buildings and loss of resting places along the way

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:54-migration-the-great-journeys:t12:o1:1
# text = Dams, roads, buildings and loss of resting places along the way
1	Dams	dam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	along	along	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | gerund | loss *not said here* | places |  | the way |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent place=Theme along way=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Too many maps

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:54-migration-the-great-journeys:t12:o2:1
# text = Too many maps
1	Too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	maps	map	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Better weather than before, so they get lazy and forget to set off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:54-migration-the-great-journeys:t12:o3:1
# text = Better weather than before, so they get lazy and forget to set off
1	Better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	before	before	ADV	RB	_	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | Better weather |  |  |  |  | lazy *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **forget** | infinitive | Better weather *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **set off** | to-infinitive | Better weather *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Fewer predators

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:54-migration-the-great-journeys:t12:o4:1
# text = Fewer predators
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	predators	predator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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