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title: «why does a turtle eater need such a strong bite» Which answer fits? — The big cats house: snow leopards, jag… · tree and pragmatics
description: «why does a turtle eater need such a strong bite» Which answer fits? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 82 «The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 10 · ★ · The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and…

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«why does a turtle eater need such a strong bite» Which answer fits?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** turtle eater, answer · **What happens:** need, fit · **To what, where:** strong bite · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 82 «The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and enrichment» 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/82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats:t10:1
# text = «why does a turtle eater need such a strong bite» Which answer fits?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	eater	eater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
8	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	11	det:predet	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
13	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	14	det	_	_
14	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	fits	fit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** *in a quote* | present · do-support | a turtle eater | such strong bite |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bite=Theme |
| 2 | **fit** | present | which answer |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Turtles bite back very hard, so it must bite first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats:t10:o1:1
# text = Turtles bite back very hard, so it must bite first
1	Turtles	turtle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bite	bite	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite back** | present | Turtles |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bite** | must | it |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Turtles are very fast and must be grabbed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats:t10:o2:1
# text = Turtles are very fast and must be grabbed
1	Turtles	turtle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	grabbed	grab	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Turtles |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grab** | must · passive | Turtles *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP» |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Turtle meat is tougher than any bone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats:t10:o3:1
# text = Turtle meat is tougher than any bone
1	Turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	tougher	tough	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	bone	bone	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 | Turtle meat |  |  |  |  | than any bone; tough *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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It has to crack a hard shell to reach the meat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats:t10:o4:1
# text = It has to crack a hard shell to reach the meat
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	crack	crack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | It |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **crack** | to-infinitive |  | a hard shell |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shell=Theme |
| 3 | **reach** | to-infinitive |  | the meat |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent meat=Theme |

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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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