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description: «how can a bright orange tiger hide, it sticks out a mile» What is right? Test 7 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 7 · The big cats house: lions and tigers up close

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«how can a bright orange tiger hide, it sticks out a mile» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bright orange tiger, tiger · **What happens:** hide, stick out, be · **To what, where:** mile

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This is test 7 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers:t7:1
# text = «how can a bright orange tiger hide, it sticks out a mile» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sticks	stick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
16	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** *in a quote* | can | a bright orange tiger |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stick out** *in a quote* | present | tiger | a mile |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mile=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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To deer, orange looks like the green and brown leaves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers:t7:o1:1
# text = To deer, orange looks like the green and brown leaves
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	orange	orange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | orange |  |  |  |  | to deer; like the green leaves | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to deer=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Tigers only hunt at night, so their colour does not matter at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers:t7:o2:1
# text = Tigers only hunt at night, so their colour does not matter at all
1	Tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	matter	matter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | present | Tigers |  |  |  | night |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **matter** | present · do-support | Tigers's colour |  |  | all |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Deer can smell but not see at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers:t7:o3:1
# text = Deer can smell but not see at all
1	Deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** | can | Deer |  |  |  |  |  | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **see** | infinitive | Deer *not said here* |  |  | all |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Tigers are really green in the wild

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers:t7:o4:1
# text = Tigers are really green in the wild
1	Tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wild	wild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Tigers |  |  | the wild |  | green *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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