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title: Wildebeest walk hundreds of kilometres across Africa each year follo… — Migration and hibernation · tree and pragmatics
description: Wildebeest walk hundreds of kilometres across Africa each year following the rains. Why? Test 7 · ★ 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 7 · ★ · Migration and hibernation

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Wildebeest walk hundreds of kilometres across Africa each year following the rains. Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Wildebeest · **What happens:** walk, follow · **To what, where:** hundreds, Africa, rains

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Wildebeest walk hundreds of kilometres across Africa each year following the rains.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:28-migration-and-hibernation:t7:1
# text = Wildebeest walk hundreds of kilometres across Africa each year following the rains.
1	Wildebeest	Wildebeest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	across	across	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	rains	rain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present | Wildebeest | hundreds of kilometres |  | Africa | year |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme across africa=Trajectory |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund | Wildebeest *not said here* | the rains |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=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.

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*Sentence 2:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:28-migration-and-hibernation:t7:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	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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To find fresh grass and water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:28-migration-and-hibernation:t7:o1:1
# text = To find fresh grass and water
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | fresh grass and water |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To find a cave to hibernate in

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:28-migration-and-hibernation:t7:o2:1
# text = To find a cave to hibernate in
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	hibernate	hibernate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | a cave |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cave=Topic |
| 2 | **hibernate** | to-infinitive |  | a cave *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To change the colour of their fur

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:28-migration-and-hibernation:t7:o3:1
# text = To change the colour of their fur
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	change	change	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To escape the cold winter snow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:28-migration-and-hibernation:t7:o4:1
# text = To escape the cold winter snow
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	escape	escape	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **escape** | to-infinitive |  | the cold winter snow |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme snow=Initial\_Location |

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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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