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title: «it stinks like dead fish in here, what is it» at a botanic garden.… — Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy… · tree and pragmatics
description: «it stinks like dead fish in here, what is it» at a botanic garden. What is most likely? Test 6 of lesson 162 «Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th
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# Test 6 · Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking…

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«it stinks like dead fish in here, what is it» at a botanic garden. What is most likely?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** it, dead fish · **What happens:** stink, be · **To what, where:** botanic garden, it

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This is test 6 of lesson 162 «Sumatra: the smallest tiger, the hairy rhino, the stinking giant flower and the venomous loris» 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/162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «it stinks like dead fish in here, what is it» at a botanic garden.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris:t6:1
# text = «it stinks like dead fish in here, what is it» at a botanic garden.
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stinks	stink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	botanic	botanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stink** *in a quote* | present | it |  |  | a botanic garden |  | like dead fish | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | dead fish | it |  |  |  |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is most likely?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris:t6:2
# text = What is most likely?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
4	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Someone dropped their lunch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris:t6:o1:1
# text = Someone dropped their lunch
1	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | past | Someone | their lunch |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Theme |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A titan arum is blooming

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris:t6:o2:1
# text = A titan arum is blooming
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	titan	titan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	arum	arum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	blooming	bloom	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bloom** | present · progressive | a titan arum |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A rhino is in the greenhouse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris:t6:o3:1
# text = A rhino is in the greenhouse
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rhino	rhino	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	greenhouse	greenhouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The garden pond has frozen over

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:162-sumatra-tigers-hairy-rhinos-and-the-venomous-loris:t6:o4:1
# text = The garden pond has frozen over
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **freeze over** | present · perfect · passive |  | the garden pond |  |  |  | over *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |

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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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