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title: What would happen if a farmer replaced her beehive fence with a fenc… — Myth check: are elephants scared of mi… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a farmer replaced her beehive fence with a fence of pet mice? Test 4 · ★★ of lesson 149 «Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?» 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 wrong
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# Test 4 · ★★ · Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?

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What would happen if a farmer replaced her beehive fence with a fence of pet mice?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** farmer · **What happens:** happen, replace · **To what, where:** beehive fence

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This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 149 «Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?» 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/149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice:t4:1
# text = What would happen if a farmer replaced her beehive fence with a fence of pet mice?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	replaced	replace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	beehive	beehive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **replace** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a farmer | farmer's beehive fence |  |  |  | with a fence of pet mice | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme fence=Location with fence=Co-Theme |

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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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The elephants would bring honey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice:t4:o1:1
# text = The elephants would bring honey
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | would | the elephants | honey |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent honey=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The mice would chase the elephants

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice:t4:o2:1
# text = The mice would chase the elephants
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	chase	chase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase** | would | the mice | the elephants |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The elephants would run away screaming

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice:t4:o3:1
# text = The elephants would run away screaming
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	screaming	scream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run away** | would | the elephants |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **scream** *speech: express* | gerund | the elephants *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The elephants would probably walk right in

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice:t4:o4:1
# text = The elephants would probably walk right in
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	right	right	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | would | the elephants |  |  |  |  | probably, right *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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