---
title: A new fish is found with a flat body, eyes on top and sandy colours.… — Habitats and adaptations · tree and pragmatics
description: A new fish is found with a flat body, eyes on top and sandy colours. Where does it most likely live? Test 8 · ★★ 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 wrong.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/t8/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Habitats and adaptations](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/) / t8

# Test 8 · ★★ · Habitats and adaptations

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A new fish is found with a flat body, eyes on top and sandy colours. Where does it most likely live?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fish · **What happens:** find, live · **To what, where:** new fish

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 8 · ★★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

<!-- .note -->
*Sentence 1:* A new fish is found with a flat body, eyes on top and sandy colours.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:27-habitats-and-adaptations:t8:1
# text = A new fish is found with a flat body, eyes on top and sandy colours.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present · passive |  | a new fish |  |  |  | with a flat body and eyes on top and sandy colours | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- .note -->
*Sentence 2:* Where does it most likely live?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:27-habitats-and-adaptations:t8:2
# text = Where does it most likely live?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present · do-support | fish |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Hiding among red corals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:27-habitats-and-adaptations:t8:o1:1
# text = Hiding among red corals
1	Hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	among	among	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	corals	coral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | gerund |  |  |  | red corals |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among coral=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Swimming fast in open water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:27-habitats-and-adaptations:t8:o2:1
# text = Swimming fast in open water
1	Swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | gerund |  |  |  | open water |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Lying on the sandy sea floor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:27-habitats-and-adaptations:t8:o3:1
# text = Lying on the sandy sea floor
1	Lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	sandy	sandy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  | the sandy sea floor |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Living in a fresh mountain stream

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:27-habitats-and-adaptations:t8:o4:1
# text = Living in a fresh mountain stream
1	Living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  | a fresh mountain stream |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in stream=Location |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Habitats and adaptations, test 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/t7/)
- next →: [Habitats and adaptations, test 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/t9/)
- ↑ back to [Habitats and adaptations](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/)