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title: what's hibernating mean — Migration and hibernation · tree and pragmatics
description: what's hibernating mean Test 11 · ★ of lesson 28 «Migration and hibernation» 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 11 · ★ · Migration and hibernation

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what's hibernating mean

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** hibernate

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 28 «Migration and hibernation» 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/28-migration-and-hibernation/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:28-migration-and-hibernation:t11:1
# text = what's hibernating mean
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hibernating	hibernate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hibernate** | present · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | mean *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Flying south for the winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:28-migration-and-hibernation:t11:o1:1
# text = Flying south for the winter
1	Flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	south	south	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  | winter | south *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Changing colour in the snow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:28-migration-and-hibernation:t11:o2:1
# text = Changing colour in the snow
1	Changing	change	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | gerund |  | colour |  | the snow |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient |

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

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A long deep winter sleep with the body cooling down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:28-migration-and-hibernation:t11:o3:1
# text = A long deep winter sleep with the body cooling down
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	cooling	cool	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cool down** | gerund | a long deep winter sleep with the body *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Storing lots of food in a burrow to eat in the winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:28-migration-and-hibernation:t11:o4:1
# text = Storing lots of food in a burrow to eat in the winter
1	Storing	store	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	burrow	burrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **store** | gerund |  | lots of food |  | a burrow |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lot=Theme in burrow=Location |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | winter |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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