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title: let's burn ants with the magnifying glass, its science — Wild animals, zoos and kindness to ani… · tree and pragmatics
description: let's burn ants with the magnifying glass, its science Test 13 · ★ of lesson 71 «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals» 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 13 · ★ · Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals

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let's burn ants with the magnifying glass, its science

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, 's · **What happens:** let, burn, magnify · **To what, where:** 's, ants

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 71 «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals» 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/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness:t13:1
# text = let's burn ants with the magnifying glass, its science
1	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	magnifying	magnify	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | 's |  |  |  | glass's science *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **burn** | infinitive | 's *not said here* | ants |  |  |  | with the magnifying glass | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ant=Patient with glass=Instrument |
| 3 | **magnify** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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No, that burns and hurts living things

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness:t13:o1:1
# text = No, that burns and hurts living things
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	burns	burn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | present | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hurt** | present | that *not said here* | living things |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Patient |
| 3 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, it is fine because it is science

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness:t13:o2:1
# text = Yes, it is fine because it is science
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	expl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | because science | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yes, ants are too small to feel the heat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness:t13:o3:1
# text = Yes, ants are too small to feel the heat
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | ants |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | to-infinitive | ants *not said here* | the heat |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, if you only do a few

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness:t13:o4:1
# text = Yes, if you only do a few
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | you | a few |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Eventuality |

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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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