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title: Why do some places with mosquitoes take bites more seriously than ot… — Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do some places with mosquitoes take bites more seriously than others? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 252 «Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes» of the everyday 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 7 · ★★ · Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes

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Why do some places with mosquitoes take bites more seriously than others?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** places · **What happens:** do, take · **To what, where:** bites

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This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 252 «Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes» of the everyday 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/everyday/252-heat-equipment-and-mosquitoes/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:252-heat-equipment-and-mosquitoes:t7:1
# text = Why do some places with mosquitoes take bites more seriously than others?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	bites	bite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	seriously	seriously	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | some places with mosquitoes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | present | some places with mosquitoes | bites |  |  |  | seriously *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Theme |

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

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In some places mosquitoes carry diseases

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:252-heat-equipment-and-mosquitoes:t7:o1:1
# text = In some places mosquitoes carry diseases
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	diseases	disease	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | present | mosquitoes | diseases |  | some places |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent disease=Value in place=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The bites there are far more itchy than anywhere else

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:252-heat-equipment-and-mosquitoes:t7:o2:1
# text = The bites there are far more itchy than anywhere else
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bites	bite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	itchy	itchy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	obl	_	_
10	else	else	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the bites |  |  |  |  | itchy *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Mosquitoes there are much bigger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:252-heat-equipment-and-mosquitoes:t7:o3:1
# text = Mosquitoes there are much bigger
1	Mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	nsubj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | Mosquitoes |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They bite only children there

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:252-heat-equipment-and-mosquitoes:t7:o4:1
# text = They bite only children there
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bite	bite	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** | present | They | children |  | there |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |

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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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