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title: A rabbit is busiest at dawn and dusk. What is that called? — The nocturnal house: night animals by… · tree and pragmatics
description: A rabbit is busiest at dawn and dusk. What is that called? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 95 «The nocturnal house: night animals by red light» 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 11 · ★★ · The nocturnal house: night animals by red light

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A rabbit is busiest at dawn and dusk. What is that called?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** rabbit · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** that · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 95 «The nocturnal house: night animals by red light» 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/95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A rabbit is busiest at dawn and dusk.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light:t11:1
# text = A rabbit is busiest at dawn and dusk.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	busiest	busy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	dusk	dusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a rabbit |  |  |  | dawn | busy *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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is that called?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light:t11:2
# text = What is that called?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present · passive |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Result |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Crepuscular

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light:t11:o1:1
# text = Crepuscular
1	Crepuscular	Crepuscular	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nocturnal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light:t11:o2:1
# text = Nocturnal
1	Nocturnal	Nocturnal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Migratory

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light:t11:o3:1
# text = Migratory
1	Migratory	Migratory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Hibernating

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:95-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light:t11:o4:1
# text = Hibernating
1	Hibernating	hibernate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hibernate** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |

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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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