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title: «meerkat on its own in my garden lol, like Timon» What is right? — Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and wa… · tree and pragmatics
description: «meerkat on its own in my garden lol, like Timon» What is right? Test 1 of lesson 125 «Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs» 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 wrong.
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# Test 1 · Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs

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«meerkat on its own in my garden lol, like Timon» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Timon · **What happens:** be

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This is test 1 of lesson 125 «Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs» 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/125-timon-and-pumbaa-real-meerkats-and-warthogs/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:125-timon-and-pumbaa-real-meerkats-and-warthogs:t1:1
# text = «meerkat on its own in my garden lol, like Timon» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	meerkat	meerkat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Timon	Timon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	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	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Timon |  |  |  |  | right *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 {#o1}

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True, meerkats prefer to live alone, just like Timon in the film

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:125-timon-and-pumbaa-real-meerkats-and-warthogs:t1:o1:1
# text = True, meerkats prefer to live alone, just like Timon in the film
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	meerkats	meerkat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	prefer	prefer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Timon	Timon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prefer** | present | True meerkats |  |  | the film |  | like Timon | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **live** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | True meerkats *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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True, they live in gardens

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:125-timon-and-pumbaa-real-meerkats-and-warthogs:t1:o2:1
# text = True, they live in gardens
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | they |  |  | gardens |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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True, they live with warthogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:125-timon-and-pumbaa-real-meerkats-and-warthogs:t1:o3:1
# text = True, they live with warthogs
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	reparandum	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	warthogs	warthog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | they |  |  |  |  | with warthogs | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with warthog=Location |

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

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Wild meerkats almost never live alone; they live in mobs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:125-timon-and-pumbaa-real-meerkats-and-warthogs:t1:o4:1
# text = Wild meerkats almost never live alone; they live in mobs
1	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	meerkats	meerkat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	mobs	mob	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **live** | present | Wild meerkats |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | present | meerkats *= meerkat* |  |  | mobs |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mob=Location |

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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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