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title: A polar bear is moved to a hot desert. What would its fur and fat do… — Habitats and adaptations · tree and pragmatics
description: A polar bear is moved to a hot desert. What would its fur and fat do there? Test 3 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Habitats and adaptations» 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 right.
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# Test 3 · ★★ · Habitats and adaptations

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A polar bear is moved to a hot desert. What would its fur and fat do there?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** move · **To what, where:** polar bear, hot desert

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This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Habitats and adaptations» 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/27-habitats-and-adaptations/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A polar bear is moved to a hot desert.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:27-habitats-and-adaptations:t3:1
# text = A polar bear is moved to a hot desert.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | present · passive |  | a polar bear |  | a hot desert |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to desert=Trajectory |

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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 would its fur and fat do there?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:27-habitats-and-adaptations:t3:2
# text = What would its fur and fat do there?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

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

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Make it overheat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:27-habitats-and-adaptations:t3:o1:1
# text = Make it overheat
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	overheat	overheat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **overheat** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Help it find water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:27-habitats-and-adaptations:t3:o2:1
# text = Help it find water
1	Help	help	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | infinitive |  | water |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Hide it on the sand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:27-habitats-and-adaptations:t3:o3:1
# text = Hide it on the sand
1	Hide	hide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  | the sand |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient on sand=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Keep it cool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:27-habitats-and-adaptations:t3:o4:1
# text = Keep it cool
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | cool *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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