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title: In Disney's Fantasia, hippos in tutus dance across the water. What i… — The African savanna area: hippos, meer… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Disney's Fantasia, hippos in tutus dance across the water. What is real? Test 2 · ★ 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 optio
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# Test 2 · ★ · The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wil…

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In Disney's Fantasia, hippos in tutus dance across the water. What is real?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** hippos · **What happens:** dance, be · **To what, where:** Fantasia

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In Disney's Fantasia, hippos in tutus dance across the water.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches:t2:1
# text = In Disney's Fantasia, hippos in tutus dance across the water.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Disney	Disney	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	Fantasia	Fantasia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	hippos	hippo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	tutus	tutu	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	dance	dance	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	across	across	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | present | hippos in tutus |  |  | Disney's Fantasia |  | across the water | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fantasia=Location |

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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 real?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches:t2:2
# text = What is real?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Hippos float high and spin round and round on the surface

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches:t2:o1:1
# text = Hippos float high and spin round and round on the surface
1	Hippos	hippo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	float	float	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	spin	spin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	round	round	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	round	round	ADV	RB	_	6	conj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | present | Hippos |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **spin** | present | Hippos *not said here* |  |  | the surface |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on surface=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Hippos swim gracefully like ballerinas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches:t2:o2:1
# text = Hippos swim gracefully like ballerinas
1	Hippos	hippo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	gracefully	gracefully	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	ballerinas	ballerina	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | present | Hippos |  |  |  |  | like ballerinas; gracefully *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Hippos cannot go into water at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches:t2:o3:1
# text = Hippos cannot go into water at all
1	Hippos	hippo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Hippos sink and walk or bounce on the bottom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches:t2:o4:1
# text = Hippos sink and walk or bounce on the bottom
1	Hippos	hippo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sink	sink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	bounce	bounce	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | present | Hippos |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **walk** | present | Hippos *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bounce** | present | Hippos *not said here* |  |  | the bottom |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bottom=Trajectory |

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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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