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title: «that black river's dirty, don't swim, it's oil» What is the dark co… — The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flood… · tree and pragmatics
description: «that black river's dirty, don't swim, it's oil» What is the dark colour really? Test 10 of lesson 155 «The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 10 · The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fis…

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«that black river's dirty, don't swim, it's oil» What is the dark colour really?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** dirty, river · **What happens:** not swim, be · **To what, where:** oil, dark colour

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This is test 10 of lesson 155 «The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas» 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/155-the-amazon-river/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t10:1
# text = «that black river's dirty, don't swim, it's oil» What is the dark colour really?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
16	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
21	really	really	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **swim** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | that black river's dirty and oil *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | river | oil |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | that black river's dirty and oil | the dark colour |  |  |  |  | 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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Oil from deep wells

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t10:o1:1
# text = Oil from deep wells
1	Oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wells	well	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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Dissolved stuff from rotting leaves, like tea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t10:o2:1
# text = Dissolved stuff from rotting leaves, like tea
1	Dissolved	dissolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	rotting	rot	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dissolve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **rot** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Ink squirted by octopuses that swim up the river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t10:o3:1
# text = Ink squirted by octopuses that swim up the river
1	Ink	ink	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	squirted	squirt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	octopuses	octopus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ink** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **squirt** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by octopuses | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme by octopus=Destination |
| 3 | **swim up** | present | octopuses | the river |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme river=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Black paint from a factory

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t10:o4:1
# text = Black paint from a factory
1	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	paint	paint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	factory	factory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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