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title: «look, a zebra with a giraffe's head!» What animal is it? — The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobo… · tree and pragmatics
description: «look, a zebra with a giraffe's head!» What animal is it? Test 3 · ★ 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's choice was wron
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# Test 3 · ★ · The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest…

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«look, a zebra with a giraffe's head!» What animal is it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, animal · **What happens:** look, be · **To what, where:** zebra

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «look, a zebra with a giraffe's head!»

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:159-the-congo-rainforest:t3:1
# text = «look, a zebra with a giraffe's head!»
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	zebra	zebra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | a zebra with a giraffe's head |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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 animal is it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:159-the-congo-rainforest:t3:2
# text = What animal is it?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | animal |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A young zebra

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:159-the-congo-rainforest:t3:o1:1
# text = A young zebra
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	zebra	zebra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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An okapi, the giraffe's closest relative

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:159-the-congo-rainforest:t3:o2:1
# text = An okapi, the giraffe's closest relative
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	okapi	okapi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	closest	close	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	relative	relative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A striped antelope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:159-the-congo-rainforest:t3:o3:1
# text = A striped antelope
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	striped	striped	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	antelope	antelope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A mix of a zebra and a giraffe, born on a farm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:159-the-congo-rainforest:t3:o4:1
# text = A mix of a zebra and a giraffe, born on a farm
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mix	mix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	zebra	zebra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle |  | a mix of a zebra and a giraffe *not said here* |  | a farm |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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