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# Test 10 · ★★★ · More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows…

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A cartoon hedgehog laps a saucer of milk by the back door. What should you really leave out?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cartoon hedgehog, you · **What happens:** lap, leave out · **To what, where:** saucer

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This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 154 «More animal myths: red rags, camel humps, porcupine arrows, toads and falling cats» 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/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A cartoon hedgehog laps a saucer of milk by the back door.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons:t10:1
# text = A cartoon hedgehog laps a saucer of milk by the back door.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	hedgehog	hedgehog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	laps	lap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	saucer	saucer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lap** | present | a cartoon hedgehog | a saucer of milk |  |  |  | by the back door | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saucer=Patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What should you really leave out?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons:t10:2
# text = What should you really leave out?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave out** | should | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Water and meaty cat or dog food

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons:t10:o1:1
# text = Water and meaty cat or dog food
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	meaty	meaty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Bread soaked in milk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons:t10:o2:1
# text = Bread soaked in milk
1	Bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	soaked	soak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	acl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **soak** | participle |  | Bread *not said here* |  |  |  | in milk | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in milk=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Chocolate biscuits

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons:t10:o3:1
# text = Chocolate biscuits
1	Chocolate	chocolate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Milk, but warm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons:t10:o4:1
# text = Milk, but warm
1	Milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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