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description: Some microbes live in boiling hot springs. What does that tell scientists? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 63 «Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad» 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 10 · ★★ · Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad

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Some microbes live in boiling hot springs. What does that tell scientists?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** microbes, that · **What happens:** live, boil, tell · **To what, where:** scientists · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 63 «Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad» 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/63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Some microbes live in boiling hot springs.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses:t10:1
# text = Some microbes live in boiling hot springs.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	microbes	microbe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	springs	spring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | some microbes |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **boil** | gerund | some microbes *not said here* |  |  |  | spring |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What does that tell scientists?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses:t10:2
# text = What does that tell scientists?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | that |  | scientists |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent scientist=Recipient what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Hot springs make new microbes out of the rocks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses:t10:o1:1
# text = Hot springs make new microbes out of the rocks
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	springs	spring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	microbes	microbe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Hot springs | new microbes |  | the rocks |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset microbe=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Hot water is the only place life can exist

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses:t10:o2:1
# text = Hot water is the only place life can exist
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	exist	exist	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Hot water | the only place life |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **exist** | can |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Life can survive in places once thought impossible

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses:t10:o3:1
# text = Life can survive in places once thought impossible
1	Life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	survive	survive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	advmod	_	_
7	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
8	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **survive** | can | Life |  |  | places |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | participle | Life *not said here* |  |  |  |  | impossible, once *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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All microbes love boiling water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses:t10:o4:1
# text = All microbes love boiling water
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	microbes	microbe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present | all microbes | boiling water |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus |
| 2 | **boil** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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