--- title: A heap of brown leaves in the mud suddenly swallows a fish. What was… — The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flood… · tree and pragmatics description: A heap of brown leaves in the mud suddenly swallows a fish. What was it? Test 9 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; Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/155-the-amazon-river/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flood…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/155-the-amazon-river/) / t9 # Test 9 · The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fis… A heap of brown leaves in the mud suddenly swallows a fish. What was it? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** heap · **What happens:** swallow, be · **To what, where:** fish, heap This is test 9 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A heap of brown leaves in the mud suddenly swallows a fish. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t9:1 # text = A heap of brown leaves in the mud suddenly swallows a fish. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 heap heap NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 swallows swallow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swallow** | present | a heap of brown leaves in the mud | a fish | | | | suddenly *property* | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | 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. *Sentence 2:* What was it? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t9:2 # text = What was it? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | heap | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} A matamata turtle ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t9:o1:1 # text = A matamata turtle 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 matamata matamata NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 turtle turtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} A piranha ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t9:o2:1 # text = A piranha 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 piranha piranha NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} A giant otter ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t9:o3:1 # text = A giant otter 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 otter otter NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} A boto ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:155-the-amazon-river:t9:o4:1 # text = A boto 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boto boto NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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