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title: «meerkat just ate a scorpion and didn't die, how» What is right? — Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and wa… · tree and pragmatics
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# Test 11 · Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs

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«meerkat just ate a scorpion and didn't die, how» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** meerkat · **What happens:** eat, not die, be · **To what, where:** scorpion

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This is test 11 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:125-timon-and-pumbaa-real-meerkats-and-warthogs:t11:1
# text = «meerkat just ate a scorpion and didn't die, how» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	meerkat	meerkat	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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	scorpion	scorpion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	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	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	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 | meerkat | a scorpion |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scorpion=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **die** *in a quote* | past · do-support | meerkat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It bites off or avoids the stinger and can survive some venom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:125-timon-and-pumbaa-real-meerkats-and-warthogs:t11:o1:1
# text = It bites off or avoids the stinger and can survive some venom
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bites	bite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	avoids	avoid	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stinger	stinger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	survive	survive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	venom	venom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite off** | present | It |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **avoid** | present |  | the stinger |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent stinger=Location |
| 3 | **survive** | can |  | some venom |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme venom=Circumstance |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Meerkats have metal teeth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:125-timon-and-pumbaa-real-meerkats-and-warthogs:t11:o2:1
# text = Meerkats have metal teeth
1	Meerkats	meerkat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Meerkats | metal teeth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Scorpions are not real animals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:125-timon-and-pumbaa-real-meerkats-and-warthogs:t11:o3:1
# text = Scorpions are not real animals
1	Scorpions	scorpion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Scorpions | real animals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The scorpion was made of plastic, as the real ones would kill it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:125-timon-and-pumbaa-real-meerkats-and-warthogs:t11:o4:1
# text = The scorpion was made of plastic, as the real ones would kill it
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	scorpion	scorpion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	plastic	plastic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | the scorpion |  |  |  | of plastic | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **kill** | would | the real ones | scorpion |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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