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title: Hawks eat both snakes and mice, and snakes also eat mice. What does… — Food chains and food webs · tree and pragmatics
description: Hawks eat both snakes and mice, and snakes also eat mice. What does this make? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 26 «Food chains and food webs» 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 9 · ★ · Food chains and food webs

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Hawks eat both snakes and mice, and snakes also eat mice. What does this make?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Hawks, snakes, this · **What happens:** eat, make · **To what, where:** snakes, mice

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 26 «Food chains and food webs» 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/26-food-chains-and-webs/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Hawks eat both snakes and mice, and snakes also eat mice.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:26-food-chains-and-webs:t9:1
# text = Hawks eat both snakes and mice, and snakes also eat mice.
1	Hawks	hawk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	also	also	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Hawks | both snakes and mice |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | present | snakes | mice |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What does this make?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:26-food-chains-and-webs:t9:2
# text = What does this make?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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 | **make** | present · do-support | this |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset what=Product |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A life cycle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:26-food-chains-and-webs:t9:o1:1
# text = A life cycle
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cycle	cycle	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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A food web

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:26-food-chains-and-webs:t9:o2:1
# text = A food web
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	web	web	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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A single food chain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:26-food-chains-and-webs:t9:o3:1
# text = A single food chain
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	chain	chain	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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A habitat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:26-food-chains-and-webs:t9:o4:1
# text = A habitat
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	habitat	habitat	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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