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title: A monkey keeps eating the grape and spitting out the pill. What migh… — Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: A monkey keeps eating the grape and spitting out the pill. What might keepers try? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 110 «Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 11 · ★★ · Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital

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A monkey keeps eating the grape and spitting out the pill. What might keepers try?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** monkey, keepers · **What happens:** keep, eat, spit out, try · **To what, where:** grape, pill

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 110 «Behind the scenes: the zoo vet and the animal hospital» 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/110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A monkey keeps eating the grape and spitting out the pill.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital:t11:1
# text = A monkey keeps eating the grape and spitting out the pill.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	grape	grape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	spitting	spit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	conj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pill	pill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | a monkey |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | a monkey *not said here* | the grape |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grape=Patient |
| 3 | **spit out** | gerund | a monkey *not said here* | the pill |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pill=Theme |

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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 might keepers try?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital:t11:2
# text = What might keepers try?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	keepers	keeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | might | keepers |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Stopping its medicine for good

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital:t11:o1:1
# text = Stopping its medicine for good
1	Stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | gerund |  | its medicine |  |  |  | for good | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality medicine=Eventuality |
| 2 | **medicine** |  | its *= it* |  |  |  |  |  | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Forcing the pill in by hand every day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital:t11:o2:1
# text = Forcing the pill in by hand every day
1	Forcing	force	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pill	pill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **force in** | gerund |  | the pill |  |  | day | by hand | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pill=Recipient |

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

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Hiding it in a different favourite food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital:t11:o3:1
# text = Hiding it in a different favourite food
1	Hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | gerund |  | it |  | a different favourite food |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in food=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Giving it a bigger grape with two pills

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:110-behind-the-scenes-the-zoo-vet-and-the-animal-hospital:t11:o4:1
# text = Giving it a bigger grape with two pills
1	Giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	grape	grape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	pills	pill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | gerund |  | it |  |  |  | with two pills | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient grape=Theme |

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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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