--- title: What would happen if a rattlesnake lost its heat sense? — Senses of animals: how they see, hear… · tree and pragmatics description: What would happen if a rattlesnake lost its heat sense? Test 5 · ★★ of lesson 79 «Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell» 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/79-senses-of-animals/t5/) [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/) / [Senses of animals: how they see, hear…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/79-senses-of-animals/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★★ · Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell What would happen if a rattlesnake lost its heat sense? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** rattlesnake · **What happens:** happen, lose, sense · **To what, where:** heat sense This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 79 «Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell» 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/79-senses-of-animals/#t5). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:79-senses-of-animals:t5:1 # text = What would happen if a rattlesnake lost its heat sense? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 if if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 rattlesnake rattlesnake NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | would | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **lose** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | a rattlesnake | rattlesnake's heat sense | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Eventuality | | 3 | **sense** | | rattlesnake | | | | | | nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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} It would hunt even better than before, by day and night ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:79-senses-of-animals:t5:o1:1 # text = It would hunt even better than before, by day and night 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 even even ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ _ 6 than than ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 before before ADV RB _ 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hunt** | would | It | | | | day | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} It could no longer smell anything around it at all ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:79-senses-of-animals:t5:o2:1 # text = It could no longer smell anything around it at all 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 no no ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ _ 5 smell smell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 obj _ _ 7 around around ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nmod _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smell** | could | It | anything | | it | | at all; long *property* | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent anything=Theme at all=Location | ### Option 3 {#o3} It would become completely blind in bright daylight ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:79-senses-of-animals:t5:o3:1 # text = It would become completely blind in bright daylight 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 completely completely ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 daylight daylight NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | would | It | | | | | blind *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} It would find it harder to catch prey at night ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:79-senses-of-animals:t5:o4:1 # text = It would find it harder to catch prey at night 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 harder hard ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 xcomp _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 prey prey NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | would | It | | | | | hard *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **catch** | to-infinitive | | prey | | | night | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme | **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. 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