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title: What would happen to an Arctic fox that stayed white all summer on b… — The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar be… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to an Arctic fox that stayed white all summer on brown tundra? Test 6 of lesson 6 «The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world» 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 6 · The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world

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What would happen to an Arctic fox that stayed white all summer on brown tundra?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Arctic fox · **What happens:** happen, stay · **To what, where:** brown tundra

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This is test 6 of lesson 6 «The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world» 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/6-the-arctic/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:6-the-arctic:t6:1
# text = What would happen to an Arctic fox that stayed white all summer on brown tundra?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Arctic	arctic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	tundra	tundra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	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 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | to a Arctic fox | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stay** | past | a Arctic fox |  |  | brown tundra | summer | white *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tundra=Location |

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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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It would turn into a snowy owl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:6-the-arctic:t6:o1:1
# text = It would turn into a snowy owl
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | It |  |  | a snowy owl |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into owl=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, white is invisible everywhere

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:6-the-arctic:t6:o2:1
# text = Nothing, white is invisible everywhere
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Nothing |  |  |  |  | everywhere, invisible *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would stay cooler in the sun and catch more food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:6-the-arctic:t6:o3:1
# text = It would stay cooler in the sun and catch more food
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	cooler	cool	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | would | It |  |  | the sun |  | cool *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=Location |
| 2 | **catch** | present |  | more food |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |

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

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Its prey and predators would spot it more easily

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:6-the-arctic:t6:o4:1
# text = Its prey and predators would spot it more easily
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	predators	predator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	spot	spot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spot** | would | Its prey and predators | it |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination |

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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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