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description: «only a few kinds of beetle, beetles are boring» What did canopy research show? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 156 «The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 11 · ★ · The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart fr…

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«only a few kinds of beetle, beetles are boring» What did canopy research show?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** beetles · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** canopy research show

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 156 «The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens» 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/156-the-amazon-canopy/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:156-the-amazon-canopy:t11:1
# text = «only a few kinds of beetle, beetles are boring» What did canopy research show?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod:poss	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	beetles	beetle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	boring	boring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
14	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	canopy	canopy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	research	research	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a few kinds of beetle's beetles |  |  |  |  | boring *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past |  | canopy research show |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent show=Eventuality |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A single tree can hold hundreds of kinds of beetles, many unnamed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:156-the-amazon-canopy:t11:o1:1
# text = A single tree can hold hundreds of kinds of beetles, many unnamed
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	beetles	beetle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	unnamed	unnamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | can | a single tree | hundreds of kinds of beetles |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Beetles do not live in rainforests

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:156-the-amazon-canopy:t11:o2:1
# text = Beetles do not live in rainforests
1	Beetles	beetle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	rainforests	rainforest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **live** | present · do-support | Beetles |  |  | rainforests |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rainforest=Location |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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All beetles live on the ground

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:156-the-amazon-canopy:t11:o3:1
# text = All beetles live on the ground
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	beetles	beetle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | all beetles |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Each tree has one beetle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:156-the-amazon-canopy:t11:o4:1
# text = Each tree has one beetle
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | each tree | one beetle |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beetle=Patient |

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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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