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title: «kingfishers eat fish, it's in the name, innit» What is right? — The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepes… · tree and pragmatics
description: «kingfishers eat fish, it's in the name, innit» What is right? Test 9 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 choice was
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# Test 9 · The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish an…

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«kingfishers eat fish, it's in the name, innit» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** kingfishers, it · **What happens:** eat, be, innit · **To what, where:** fish, name · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:160-the-congo-river:t9:1
# text = «kingfishers eat fish, it's in the name, innit» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	kingfishers	kingfisher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	innit	innit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
14	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** *in a quote* | present | kingfishers | fish |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | it |  |  | the name |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **innit** *in a quote* | infinitive | kingfishers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **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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Kingfishers eat only seeds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:160-the-congo-river:t9:o1:1
# text = Kingfishers eat only seeds
1	Kingfishers	kingfisher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Kingfishers | seeds |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, every kingfisher in the world eats only fish and nothing else

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:160-the-congo-river:t9:o2:1
# text = Yes, every kingfisher in the world eats only fish and nothing else
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	kingfisher	kingfisher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	eats	eat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	conj	_	_
13	else	else	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | every kingfisher in the world | fish |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Kingfishers are a kind of fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:160-the-congo-river:t9:o3:1
# text = Kingfishers are a kind of fish
1	Kingfishers	kingfisher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Not always; the pygmy kingfisher mostly snatches insects

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:160-the-congo-river:t9:o4:1
# text = Not always; the pygmy kingfisher mostly snatches insects
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	pygmy	pygmy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	kingfisher	kingfisher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	snatches	snatch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snatch** | present | the pygmy kingfisher | insects |  |  |  | always, mostly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme |

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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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