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title: A snake 10 centimetres long lives under the leaves. What does it mos… — The reptile house: snakes · tree and pragmatics
description: A snake 10 centimetres long lives under the leaves. What does it most likely eat? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 87 «The reptile house: snakes» 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 12 · ★ · The reptile house: snakes

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A snake 10 centimetres long lives under the leaves. What does it most likely eat?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** snake · **What happens:** eat

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 87 «The reptile house: snakes» 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/87-reptile-house-snakes/#t12).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A snake 10 centimetres long lives under the leaves.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:87-reptile-house-snakes:t12:1
# text = A snake 10 centimetres long lives under the leaves.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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*Sentence 2:* What does it most likely eat?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:87-reptile-house-snakes:t12:2
# text = What does it most likely eat?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present · do-support | snake |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Rabbits

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:87-reptile-house-snakes:t12:o1:1
# text = Rabbits
1	Rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Birds' eggs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:87-reptile-house-snakes:t12:o2:1
# text = Birds' eggs
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

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Ant and termite larvae

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:87-reptile-house-snakes:t12:o3:1
# text = Ant and termite larvae
1	Ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	termite	termite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	larvae	larva	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:87-reptile-house-snakes:t12:o4:1
# text = Fish
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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