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title: «does a hippo drown when it falls asleep under water?» What is right? — Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras,… · tree and pragmatics
description: «does a hippo drown when it falls asleep under water?» What is right? Test 10 of lesson 128 «Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes» 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 10 · Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes

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«does a hippo drown when it falls asleep under water?» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** hippo · **What happens:** drown, fall, be · **To what, where:** water

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This is test 10 of lesson 128 «Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes» 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/128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «does a hippo drown when it falls asleep under water?»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes:t10:1
# text = «does a hippo drown when it falls asleep under water?»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hippo	hippo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drown** *in a quote* | present · do-support | a hippo |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** *in a quote* | present | hippo |  |  | water |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under water=Location |

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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 right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes:t10:2
# text = What is right?
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	right	right	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 |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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No, hippos breathe water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes:t10:o1:1
# text = No, hippos breathe water
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	hippos	hippo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	breathe	breathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breathe** | present | hippos | water |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |

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

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No, it can come up for air while asleep without waking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes:t10:o2:1
# text = No, it can come up for air while asleep without waking
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
11	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	waking	wake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come up** | can | it |  |  |  |  | for air | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wake** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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No, hippos never sleep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes:t10:o3:1
# text = No, hippos never sleep
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	hippos	hippo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sleep** | present | hippos |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, hippos often drown if they fall asleep in deep water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes:t10:o4:1
# text = Yes, hippos often drown if they fall asleep in deep water
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	hippos	hippo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	often	often	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	drown	drown	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drown** | present | hippos |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fall** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | hippos *= hippo* |  |  | deep water |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in water=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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