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title: «my cousin says rafflesia smells lovely like roses» What is right? — Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys,… · tree and pragmatics
description: «my cousin says rafflesia smells lovely like roses» What is right? Test 1 of lesson 161 «Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 1 · Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower…

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«my cousin says rafflesia smells lovely like roses» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cousin, rafflesia, roses · **What happens:** say, smell, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 of lesson 161 «Borneo: orangutans, proboscis monkeys, the biggest flower and gliding snakes» 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/161-borneo-orangutans-proboscis-monkeys-and-the-biggest-flower/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:161-borneo-orangutans-proboscis-monkeys-and-the-biggest-flower:t1:1
# text = «my cousin says rafflesia smells lovely like roses» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	rafflesia	rafflesia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	smells	smell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | my cousin |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **smell** *in a quote* | present | rafflesia |  |  |  |  | like roses; lovely *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | roses |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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No, it smells of rotting meat to attract flies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:161-borneo-orangutans-proboscis-monkeys-and-the-biggest-flower:t1:o1:1
# text = No, it smells of rotting meat to attract flies
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	smells	smell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	rotting	rot	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	attract	attract	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** | present | it |  |  |  |  | of rotting meat | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of meat=Theme |
| 2 | **rot** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **attract** | to-infinitive |  | flies |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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No, it has no smell at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:161-borneo-orangutans-proboscis-monkeys-and-the-biggest-flower:t1:o2:1
# text = No, it has no smell at all
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | it | no smell |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Yes, it is the sweetest-smelling flower in the world, like roses

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:161-borneo-orangutans-proboscis-monkeys-and-the-biggest-flower:t1:o3:1
# text = Yes, it is the sweetest-smelling flower in the world, like roses
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	smelling	smell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	amod	_	_
9	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | it | the smelling flower |  | the world |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, bees love its smell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:161-borneo-orangutans-proboscis-monkeys-and-the-biggest-flower:t1:o4:1
# text = Yes, bees love its smell
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present | bees | its smell |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smell=Stimulus |
| 2 | **smell** |  | its *= it* |  |  |  |  |  | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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