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title: «Pumbaa eats bugs so warthogs eat bugs, duh» What is right? — Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and wa… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Pumbaa eats bugs so warthogs eat bugs, duh» What is right? Test 4 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 right.
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# Test 4 · Timon and Pumbaa: real meerkats and warthogs

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«Pumbaa eats bugs so warthogs eat bugs, duh» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Pumbaa, warthogs · **What happens:** eat, be · **To what, where:** bugs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:125-timon-and-pumbaa-real-meerkats-and-warthogs:t4:1
# text = «Pumbaa eats bugs so warthogs eat bugs, duh» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Pumbaa	Pumbaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	bugs	bug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	warthogs	warthog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
8	bugs	bug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	duh	duh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
12	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** *in a quote* | present | Pumbaa | bugs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | present | warthogs | bugs |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bug=Patient |
| 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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Real warthogs mostly graze grass and dig roots; bugs only now and then

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:125-timon-and-pumbaa-real-meerkats-and-warthogs:t4:o1:1
# text = Real warthogs mostly graze grass and dig roots; bugs only now and then
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	warthogs	warthog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	graze	graze	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	dig	dig	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	bugs	bug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **graze** | present | Real warthogs | grass |  |  | now | bugs *obl*; mostly *property* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Experiencer |
| 2 | **dig** | present | Real warthogs *not said here* | roots |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent root=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Wrong, warthogs eat only meat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:125-timon-and-pumbaa-real-meerkats-and-warthogs:t4:o2:1
# text = Wrong, warthogs eat only meat
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	warthogs	warthog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Right, they slurp ants all day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:125-timon-and-pumbaa-real-meerkats-and-warthogs:t4:o3:1
# text = Right, they slurp ants all day
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	slurp	slurp	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slurp** | present | they | ants |  |  | day |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ant=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Right, they eat only bugs and grubs, just like Pumbaa in the film

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:125-timon-and-pumbaa-real-meerkats-and-warthogs:t4:o4:1
# text = Right, they eat only bugs and grubs, just like Pumbaa in the film
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	bugs	bug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	grubs	grub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Pumbaa	Pumbaa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	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 | **eat** | present | they | bugs and grubs |  | the film |  | like Pumbaa | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bug=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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