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title: A big otter-like animal in a zoo pool clearly has ear flaps and walk… — Sea lions, seals and otters · tree and pragmatics
description: A big otter-like animal in a zoo pool clearly has ear flaps and walks on four flippers. What is it? Test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 100 «Sea lions, seals and otters» 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 
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# Test 11 · ★★★ · Sea lions, seals and otters

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A big otter-like animal in a zoo pool clearly has ear flaps and walks on four flippers. What is it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** big like animal, animal · **What happens:** have, walk, be · **To what, where:** ear flaps, four flippers

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This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 100 «Sea lions, seals and otters» 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/100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A big otter-like animal in a zoo pool clearly has ear flaps and walks on four flippers.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters:t11:1
# text = A big otter-like animal in a zoo pool clearly has ear flaps and walks on four flippers.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	otter	otter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	flaps	flap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	flippers	flipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a big like animal in a zoo pool | ear flaps |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flap=Patient |
| 2 | **walk** | present | a big like animal in a zoo pool *not said here* |  |  | four flippers |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on flipper=Trajectory |

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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:* What is it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters:t11:2
# text = What is it?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | animal |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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A sea otter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters:t11:o1:1
# text = A sea otter
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	otter	otter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A harbour seal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters:t11:o2:1
# text = A harbour seal
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	seal	seal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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A sea lion

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters:t11:o3:1
# text = A sea lion
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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A young walrus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters:t11:o4:1
# text = A young walrus
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	walrus	walrus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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