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title: «scientists are bringing back real mammoths next year» What is right? — Ice Age: real woolly mammoths · tree and pragmatics
description: «scientists are bringing back real mammoths next year» What is right? Test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 130 «Ice Age: real woolly mammoths» 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 9 · ★★★ · Ice Age: real woolly mammoths

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«scientists are bringing back real mammoths next year» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** scientists · **What happens:** bring back, be · **To what, where:** real mammoths · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 130 «Ice Age: real woolly mammoths» 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/130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths:t9:1
# text = «scientists are bringing back real mammoths next year» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	csubj	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring back** *in a quote* | present · progressive | scientists | real mammoths |  |  | year |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent mammoth=Theme |
| 2 | **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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True, mammoths are already in zoos

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths:t9:o1:1
# text = True, mammoths are already in zoos
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	already	already	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | True mammoths |  |  | zoos |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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True, it is already done, and the first baby mammoth will be in a zoo by next summer, the papers say

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths:t9:o2:1
# text = True, it is already done, and the first baby mammoth will be in a zoo by next summer, the papers say
1	True	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	already	already	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
11	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	mammoth	mammoth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	zoo	zoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	papers	paper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · passive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | future | the first baby mammoth |  |  | a zoo | summer |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the papers |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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

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Some hope to make cold-proof elephants with mammoth features, but it has not been done and many question it

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths:t9:o3:1
# text = Some hope to make cold-proof elephants with mammoth features, but it has not been done and many question it
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	proof	proof	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	mammoth	mammoth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hope** | present | Some |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Some *not said here* | proof elephants |  |  |  | with mammoth features | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset elephant=Product |
| 3 | **not** **do** | present · perfect · passive |  | it |  |  |  | question *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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False, no scientist has ever thought of it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:130-ice-age-real-woolly-mammoths:t9:o4:1
# text = False, no scientist has ever thought of it
1	False	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	scientist	scientist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	7	advmod	_	_
7	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present · perfect · passive |  | no False scientist |  |  | ever | of it | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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