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title: «4 elephant families, 2 babies each, babies hide under mums, how man… — Myth check: are elephants scared of mi… · tree and pragmatics
description: «4 elephant families, 2 babies each, babies hide under mums, how many babies hiding» Test 7 · ★★ 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 wro
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# Test 7 · ★★ · Myth check: are elephants scared of mice?

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«4 elephant families, 2 babies each, babies hide under mums, how many babies hiding»

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** babies, many babies · **What happens:** hide · **To what, where:** 4 elephant families

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This is test 7 · ★★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice:t7:1
# text = «4 elephant families, 2 babies each, babies hide under mums, how many babies hiding»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	mums	mum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
18	hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** *in a quote* | present | babies | 4 elephant families |  |  |  | under mums and many babies | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under mum=Location |
| 2 | **hide** *in a quote* | gerund | many babies *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#o1}

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6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice:t7:o1:1
# text = 6
1	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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8

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice:t7:o2:1
# text = 8
1	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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16

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice:t7:o3:1
# text = 16
1	16	16	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice:t7:o4:1
# text = 4
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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