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title: «all zebras look the same, how do they tell each other apart lol» Wh… — Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras,… · tree and pragmatics
description: «all zebras look the same, how do they tell each other apart lol» What is right? Test 11 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 choic
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# Test 11 · Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes

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«all zebras look the same, how do they tell each other apart lol» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** zebras · **What happens:** look, tell, be · **To what, where:** same, each · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes:t11:1
# text = «all zebras look the same, how do they tell each other apart lol» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	zebras	zebra	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	11	obj	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	fixed	_	_
14	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
17	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | present | all zebras | the same |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme same=Attribute |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · do-support | zebras *= zebra* | each |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Recipient |
| 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 {#o1}

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Only the colour of their eyes is different

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes:t11:o1:1
# text = Only the colour of their eyes is different
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the colour of their eyes |  |  |  |  | different *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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They cannot tell each other apart at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes:t11:o2:1
# text = They cannot tell each other apart at all
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	4	obj	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	fixed	_	_
7	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | They | each |  | all |  | apart *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Recipient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Every zebra's stripe pattern is unique

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes:t11:o3:1
# text = Every zebra's stripe pattern is unique
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	zebra	zebra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	stripe	stripe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pattern	pattern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	unique	unique	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | every zebra's stripe pattern |  |  |  |  | unique *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pattern** |  | every zebra |  |  |  |  |  | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They wear little name tags clipped to their ears

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes:t11:o4:1
# text = They wear little name tags clipped to their ears
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	tags	tag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	clipped	clip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | present | They | little name tags |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent tag=Source |
| 2 | **clip** | participle |  | little name tags *not said here* |  |  |  | to tags's ears | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to ear=Co-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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