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title: «cartoon otter cracking shells on its tummy in the river, cute» Whic… — Rivers, lakes and ponds · tree and pragmatics
description: «cartoon otter cracking shells on its tummy in the river, cute» Which is right? Test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Rivers, lakes and ponds» of the biology 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 · ★★★ · Rivers, lakes and ponds

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«cartoon otter cracking shells on its tummy in the river, cute» Which is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cartoon otter, river · **What happens:** crack, be · **To what, where:** shells, tummy

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This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Rivers, lakes and ponds» of the biology 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/biology/10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds:t2:1
# text = «cartoon otter cracking shells on its tummy in the river, cute» Which is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	otter	otter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cracking	crack	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	tummy	tummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	cute	cute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crack** *in a quote* | gerund | cartoon otter | shells |  | otter's tummy |  | in the river | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shell=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the river |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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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Only beavers do that

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds:t2:o1:1
# text = Only beavers do that
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	beavers	beaver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | beavers | that |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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That is a sea otter trick; river otters do not do it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds:t2:o2:1
# text = That is a sea otter trick; river otters do not do it
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	otter	otter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
8	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	otters	otter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | That | a otter trick |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **do** | present · do-support | river otters | trick |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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No otter ever uses stones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds:t2:o3:1
# text = No otter ever uses stones
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	otter	otter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | no otter | stones |  |  | ever |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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All otters do it, in rivers and in the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds:t2:o4:1
# text = All otters do it, in rivers and in the sea
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	otters	otter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | all otters | it |  | rivers and the sea |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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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