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title: A caterpillar stops eating and hangs still in a hard case. What stag… — Life cycles · tree and pragmatics
description: A caterpillar stops eating and hangs still in a hard case. What stage is it in? Test 3 of lesson 25 «Life cycles» of the world 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 3 · Life cycles

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A caterpillar stops eating and hangs still in a hard case. What stage is it in?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** caterpillar, stage · **What happens:** stop, eat, hang, be · **To what, where:** hard case

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This is test 3 of lesson 25 «Life cycles» of the world 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/world/25-life-cycles/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A caterpillar stops eating and hangs still in a hard case.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:25-life-cycles:t3:1
# text = A caterpillar stops eating and hangs still in a hard case.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	hangs	hang	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | a caterpillar |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | a caterpillar *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hang** | present | a caterpillar *not said here* |  |  | a hard case | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in case=Location |

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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 stage is it in?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:25-life-cycles:t3:2
# text = What stage is it in?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | stage |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Embryo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:25-life-cycles:t3:o1:1
# text = Embryo
1	Embryo	embryo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Pupa

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:25-life-cycles:t3:o2:1
# text = Pupa
1	Pupa	pupa	NOUN	NN	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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Larva

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:25-life-cycles:t3:o3:1
# text = Larva
1	Larva	larva	NOUN	NN	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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Adult

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:25-life-cycles:t3:o4:1
# text = Adult
1	Adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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