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title: «Gloria floats like a ballerina, so hippos are great swimmers» What… — Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras,… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Gloria floats like a ballerina, so hippos are great swimmers» What is right? Test 2 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 wa
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# Test 2 · Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes

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«Gloria floats like a ballerina, so hippos are great swimmers» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Gloria, hippos, great swimmers · **What happens:** float, be · **To what, where:** great swimmers

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This is test 2 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes:t2:1
# text = «Gloria floats like a ballerina, so hippos are great swimmers» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Gloria	Gloria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	floats	float	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ballerina	ballerina	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	hippos	hippo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	swimmers	swimmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	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	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** *in a quote* | present | Gloria |  |  |  |  | like a ballerina | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | hippos | great swimmers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | great swimmers |  |  |  |  | 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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Right, they float like balloons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes:t2:o1:1
# text = Right, they float like balloons
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	float	float	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	balloons	balloon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | present | they |  |  |  |  | like balloons | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Right, they swim like seals, twisting and diving with ease

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes:t2:o2:1
# text = Right, they swim like seals, twisting and diving with ease
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	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	seals	seal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	twisting	twist	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	diving	dive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | present | they |  |  |  |  | like seals | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **twist** | gerund | they *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dive** | gerund | they *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with ease | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Right, they glide like swans

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes:t2:o3:1
# text = Right, they glide like swans
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	glide	glide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glide** | present | they |  |  |  |  | like swans | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Real hippos sink and bounce along the river bottom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes:t2:o4:1
# text = Real hippos sink and bounce along the river bottom
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	hippos	hippo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sink	sink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	bounce	bounce	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	along	along	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | present | Real hippos |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **bounce** | present | Real hippos *not said here* |  |  | the river bottom |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along bottom=Trajectory |

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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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