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description: «lion just ate 40 kilos of zebra, will it eat again tomorrow?» What is likely? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 124 «The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 7 · ★★ · The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life

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«lion just ate 40 kilos of zebra, will it eat again tomorrow?» What is likely?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lion · **What happens:** eat, be · **To what, where:** 40 kilos

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This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 124 «The Lion King: real lions, prides and the circle of life» 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/124-the-lion-king-real-lions/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «lion just ate 40 kilos of zebra, will it eat again tomorrow?»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:124-the-lion-king-real-lions:t7:1
# text = «lion just ate 40 kilos of zebra, will it eat again tomorrow?»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	kilos	kilo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	zebra	zebra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** *in a quote* | past | lion | 40 kilos of zebra |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilo=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | future | lion |  |  |  | again; tomorrow |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 likely?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:124-the-lion-king-real-lions:t7:2
# text = What is likely?
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	likely	likely	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 |  |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It will be starving in an hour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:124-the-lion-king-real-lions:t7:o1:1
# text = It will be starving in an hour
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	starving	starve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **starve** | future · progressive | It |  |  |  | hour |  | tree rules |

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

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It may go days without eating again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:124-the-lion-king-real-lions:t7:o2:1
# text = It may go days without eating again
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | may | It |  |  |  | day |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Lions eat ten times a day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:124-the-lion-king-real-lions:t7:o3:1
# text = Lions eat ten times a day
1	Lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Lions |  |  |  | time |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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It will eat another 40 kilos at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:124-the-lion-king-real-lions:t7:o4:1
# text = It will eat another 40 kilos at night
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
5	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	kilos	kilo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | future | It | another 40 kilos |  |  | night |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kilo=Patient |

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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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