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title: «Melman's from Central Park Zoo so real giraffes live there» What is… — Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras,… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Melman's from Central Park Zoo so real giraffes live there» What is right? Test 7 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 
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# Test 7 · Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes

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«Melman's from Central Park Zoo so real giraffes live there» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** real giraffes, Central Park Zoo · **What happens:** live, be · **To what, where:** Central Park Zoo

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This is test 7 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes:t7:1
# text = «Melman's from Central Park Zoo so real giraffes live there» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Melman	Melman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
6	Park	Park	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	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	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** *in a quote* | present | real giraffes | Melman's Central Park Zoo *not said here* |  | there |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme zoo=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | Melman's Central Park Zoo |  |  |  |  | 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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The real Central Park Zoo is small and keeps no giraffes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes:t7:o1:1
# text = The real Central Park Zoo is small and keeps no giraffes
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	Central	Central	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
4	Park	Park	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Zoo	Zoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the real Central Park Zoo |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | present | the real Central Park Zoo *not said here* | no giraffes |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giraffe=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Right, they roam the park

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes:t7:o2:1
# text = Right, they roam the park
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	roam	roam	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	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roam** | present | they | the park |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme park=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Right, all zoos have giraffes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes:t7:o3:1
# text = Right, all zoos have giraffes
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Right, it has twenty giraffes living there, the biggest herd in America

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes:t7:o4:1
# text = Right, it has twenty giraffes living there, the biggest herd in America
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	giraffes	giraffe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | it | twenty giraffes and the biggest herd in America |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giraffe=Patient |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | twenty giraffes and the biggest herd in America *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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