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title: «leopards only hunt at night, so the forest's safe at noon» What is… — The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobo… · tree and pragmatics
description: «leopards only hunt at night, so the forest's safe at noon» What is right? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 159 «The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest elephants» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Test 11 · ★ · The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest…

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«leopards only hunt at night, so the forest's safe at noon» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** leopards · **What happens:** hunt, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 159 «The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest elephants» 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/159-the-congo-rainforest/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:159-the-congo-rainforest:t11:1
# text = «leopards only hunt at night, so the forest's safe at noon» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	leopards	leopard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
16	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** *in a quote* | present | leopards |  |  |  | night |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | 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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Leopards only ever hunt out on the open savanna, never among trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:159-the-congo-rainforest:t11:o1:1
# text = Leopards only ever hunt out on the open savanna, never among trees
1	Leopards	leopard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	savanna	savanna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	among	among	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt out** | infinitive | Leopards |  |  | the open savanna | ever |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent on savanna=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, they sleep all day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:159-the-congo-rainforest:t11:o2:1
# text = Yes, they sleep all day
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | present | they |  |  |  | day |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Leopards never live in forests

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:159-the-congo-rainforest:t11:o3:1
# text = Leopards never live in forests
1	Leopards	leopard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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In the dark rainforest leopards often hunt by day too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:159-the-congo-rainforest:t11:o4:1
# text = In the dark rainforest leopards often hunt by day too
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	leopards	leopard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
6	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hunt** | present |  |  |  |  | day | in the dark rainforest leopards; often *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in leopard=Location |

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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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