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title: What would happen if a keeper shaved a patch of a tiger's fur? — The big cats house: lions and tigers u… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a keeper shaved a patch of a tiger's fur? Test 6 of lesson 81 «The big cats house: lions and tigers up close» 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 big cats house: lions and tigers up close

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What would happen if a keeper shaved a patch of a tiger's fur?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** keeper · **What happens:** happen, shave · **To what, where:** patch

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This is test 6 of lesson 81 «The big cats house: lions and tigers up close» 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/81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers:t6:1
# text = What would happen if a keeper shaved a patch of a tiger's fur?
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	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	shaved	shave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shave** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | a keeper | a patch of a tiger's fur |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The tiger would lose all its stripes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers:t6:o1:1
# text = The tiger would lose all its stripes
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | would | the tiger | tiger's stripes |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stripe=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The fur would grow back with no stripes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers:t6:o2:1
# text = The fur would grow back with no stripes
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow back** | would | the fur |  |  |  |  | with no stripes | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The stripes would still show on the skin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers:t6:o3:1
# text = The stripes would still show on the skin
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stripes	stripe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | would | the stripes |  |  | the skin | still |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The skin would be plain pink underneath

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers:t6:o4:1
# text = The skin would be plain pink underneath
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	underneath	underneath	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | the skin |  |  |  |  | pink, underneath *property* | tree rules |

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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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