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title: A child wakes a hibernating hedgehog in January. Why is this harmful? — Migration and hibernation · tree and pragmatics
description: A child wakes a hibernating hedgehog in January. Why is this harmful? Test 2 · ★ 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 2 · ★ · Migration and hibernation

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A child wakes a hibernating hedgehog in January. Why is this harmful?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** child, this · **What happens:** wake, hibernate, be · **To what, where:** hibernating hedgehog

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A child wakes a hibernating hedgehog in January.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:28-migration-and-hibernation:t2:1
# text = A child wakes a hibernating hedgehog in January.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wakes	wake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	hibernating	hibernate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake** | present | a child | a hibernating hedgehog |  |  |  | in January | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hedgehog=Patient |
| 2 | **hibernate** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* Why is this harmful?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:28-migration-and-hibernation:t2:2
# text = Why is this harmful?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	harmful	harmful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	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 | **is** | present | this |  |  |  |  | harmful *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It will start to migrate south

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:28-migration-and-hibernation:t2:o1:1
# text = It will start to migrate south
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	migrate	migrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	south	south	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | future | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **migrate** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | south *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The hedgehog will forget its home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:28-migration-and-hibernation:t2:o2:1
# text = The hedgehog will forget its home
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | future | the hedgehog | hedgehog's home |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

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Waking uses up fat it needs for winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:28-migration-and-hibernation:t2:o3:1
# text = Waking uses up fat it needs for winter
1	Waking	wake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	nsubj	_	_
2	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **use up** | present |  | fat |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Patient |
| 3 | **need** | present | fat | fat *not said here* |  |  | winter |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fat=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The hedgehog will grow much too fast and too big

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:28-migration-and-hibernation:t2:o4:1
# text = The hedgehog will grow much too fast and too big
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | future | the hedgehog |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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