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title: A loud honking fills the forest at night. What is a likely source? — The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepes… · tree and pragmatics
description: A loud honking fills the forest at night. What is a likely source? Test 11 of lesson 160 «The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 11 · The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish an…

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A loud honking fills the forest at night. What is a likely source?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** loud honking · **What happens:** fill, be · **To what, where:** forest, likely source

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This is test 11 of lesson 160 «The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds» 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/160-the-congo-river/#t11).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A loud honking fills the forest at night.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:160-the-congo-river:t11:1
# text = A loud honking fills the forest at night.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	honking	honking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fills	fill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | present | a loud honking | the forest |  |  | night |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent forest=Patient |

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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 is a likely source?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:160-the-congo-river:t11:2
# text = What is a likely source?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A lungfish in its mud ball

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:160-the-congo-river:t11:o1:1
# text = A lungfish in its mud ball
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lungfish	lungfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A hippo snoring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:160-the-congo-river:t11:o2:1
# text = A hippo snoring
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hippo	hippo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	snoring	snoring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Male hammer-headed bats calling to females

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:160-the-congo-river:t11:o3:1
# text = Male hammer-headed bats calling to females
1	Male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	headed	head	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	females	female	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **head** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** | gerund | Male headed bats *not said here* |  | females |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to female=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Leopards purring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:160-the-congo-river:t11:o4:1
# text = Leopards purring
1	Leopards	leopard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	purring	purr	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **purr** | gerund | Leopards *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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