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title: «why's that rabbit drumming its foot, is it angry with me» What is i… — Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and… · tree and pragmatics
description: «why's that rabbit drumming its foot, is it angry with me» What is it most likely doing? Test 9 of lesson 143 «Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls» 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 rig
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# Test 9 · Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls

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«why's that rabbit drumming its foot, is it angry with me» What is it most likely doing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** rabbit, it · **What happens:** drum, be · **To what, where:** foot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 of lesson 143 «Bambi: real deer, rabbits, skunks and owls» 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/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls:t9:1
# text = «why's that rabbit drumming its foot, is it angry with me» What is it most likely doing?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	drumming	drum	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	csubj	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
16	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	20	advmod	_	_
20	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drum** *in a quote* | present · progressive | that rabbit | rabbit's foot |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | it |  |  |  |  | with me; angry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | rabbit |  |  |  |  | do, likely *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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Asking for a carrot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls:t9:o1:1
# text = Asking for a carrot
1	Asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	carrot	carrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for a carrot | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Saying hello to you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls:t9:o2:1
# text = Saying hello to you
1	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	hello	hello	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | hello | you |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hello=Topic to you=Recipient |

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

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Warning other rabbits that danger is near

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls:t9:o3:1
# text = Warning other rabbits that danger is near
1	Warning	warn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	det	_	_
5	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	near	near	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **warn** *speech: warn* | gerund |  |  | other rabbits  that danger |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rabbit=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present | Warning |  |  |  |  | near *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Dancing to music

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls:t9:o4:1
# text = Dancing to music
1	Dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | gerund |  |  |  | music |  |  | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme to music=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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