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title: Which animal stays active all winter? — Migration and hibernation · tree and pragmatics
description: Which animal stays active all winter? Test 4 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 4 · ★ · Migration and hibernation

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Which animal stays active all winter?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** animal · **What happens:** stay

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:28-migration-and-hibernation:t4:1
# text = Which animal stays active all winter?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	active	active	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | present | which animal |  |  |  | winter | active *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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A hibernating dormouse in its nest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:28-migration-and-hibernation:t4:o1:1
# text = A hibernating dormouse in its nest
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hibernating	hibernate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	dormouse	dormouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A bat sleeping deeply in a dark cave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:28-migration-and-hibernation:t4:o2:1
# text = A bat sleeping deeply in a dark cave
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
4	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | gerund | a bat *not said here* |  |  | a dark cave |  | deeply *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in cave=Location |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A squirrel with a store of nuts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:28-migration-and-hibernation:t4:o3:1
# text = A squirrel with a store of nuts
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A swallow spending winter in Africa

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:28-migration-and-hibernation:t4:o4:1
# text = A swallow spending winter in Africa
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	spending	spend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | gerund | a swallow *not said here* |  |  | Africa | winter |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: 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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