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title: Why would a fishing cat have slightly webbed feet? — The big cats house: snow leopards, jag… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why would a fishing cat have slightly webbed feet? Test 9 · ★ 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 choice was right.
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# Test 9 · ★ · The big cats house: snow leopards, jaguars, small cats and…

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Why would a fishing cat have slightly webbed feet?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** web · **To what, where:** fishing cat

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats:t9:1
# text = Why would a fishing cat have slightly webbed feet?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	fishing	fishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	webbed	web	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **web** | would · perfect · passive |  | a fishing cat |  |  |  | feet *obl:unmarked*; slightly *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 {#o1}

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It lives on hot desert sand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats:t9:o1:1
# text = It lives on hot desert sand
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | It |  |  | hot desert sand |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sand=Location |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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It hunts in swamps and water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats:t9:o2:1
# text = It hunts in swamps and water
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hunts	hunt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	swamps	swamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | present | It |  |  | swamps and water |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in swamp=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It walks on deep snow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats:t9:o3:1
# text = It walks on deep snow
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present | It |  |  | deep snow |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on snow=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It climbs tall trees in the forest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats:t9:o4:1
# text = It climbs tall trees in the forest
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	climbs	climb	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | present | It | tall trees |  | the forest |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=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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