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title: Ascertain the term applied to a period of dormancy undertaken during… — Sleep and hibernation · tree and pragmatics
description: Ascertain the term applied to a period of dormancy undertaken during a hot and arid season. Exam question 4 of lesson 55 «Sleep and hibernation» 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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# Exam question 4 · Sleep and hibernation

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Ascertain the term applied to a period of dormancy undertaken during a hot and arid season.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, apply, undertake · **To what, where:** term, dormancy

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 55 «Sleep and hibernation» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/55-sleep-and-hibernation/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:55-sleep-and-hibernation:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the term applied to a period of dormancy undertaken during a hot and arid season.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	applied	apply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	dormancy	dormancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	undertaken	undertake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	during	during	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	arid	arid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the term |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Topic |
| 2 | **apply** | participle |  | the term *not said here* |  |  |  | to a period of dormancy | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **undertake** | participle |  | dormancy *not said here* |  |  | season |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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Migration

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:55-sleep-and-hibernation:e4:o1:1
# text = Migration
1	Migration	migration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Hibernation

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:55-sleep-and-hibernation:e4:o2:1
# text = Hibernation
1	Hibernation	hibernation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Metamorphosis

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:55-sleep-and-hibernation:e4:o3:1
# text = Metamorphosis
1	Metamorphosis	metamorphosis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Aestivation

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:55-sleep-and-hibernation:e4:o4:1
# text = Aestivation
1	Aestivation	aestivation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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