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title: «warthogs walk into their holes head first, don't they» What is true? — The African savanna area: hippos, meer… · tree and pragmatics
description: «warthogs walk into their holes head first, don't they» What is true? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 102 «The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 10 · ★ · The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wil…

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«warthogs walk into their holes head first, don't they» What is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** warthogs · **What happens:** walk, do, be · **To what, where:** holes head, warthogs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 102 «The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas» 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/102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches:t10:1
# text = «warthogs walk into their holes head first, don't they» What is true?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	warthogs	warthog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	compound	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** *in a quote* | present | warthogs |  |  |  |  | into warthogs's holes head *result*; first *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into head=Result |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | warthogs *not said here* | warthogs *= warthog* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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They back in, so their tusks face out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches:t10:o1:1
# text = They back in, so their tusks face out
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	tusks	tusk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	face	face	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **face out** | present | their tusks |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They never go into holes at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches:t10:o2:1
# text = They never go into holes at all
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | present | They |  |  | holes |  | at all | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into hole=Initial\_Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They sleep on top of the hole

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches:t10:o3:1
# text = They sleep on top of the hole
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | present | They |  |  | top of the hole |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, head first, so they can dig deeper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches:t10:o4:1
# text = Yes, head first, so they can dig deeper
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	dig	dig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | can | they |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: 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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