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title: «stinger net, ugh, why can't we just swim anywhere» What is right? — Australia's venomous animals and why f… · tree and pragmatics
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# Test 11 · ★★ · Australia's venomous animals and why few people die

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«stinger net, ugh, why can't we just swim anywhere» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** we · **What happens:** not swim, be · **To what, where:** stinger net · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 166 «Australia's venomous animals and why few people die» 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/166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die:t11:1
# text = «stinger net, ugh, why can't we just swim anywhere» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	stinger	stinger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	ugh	ugh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
8	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	swim	swim	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **swim** *in a quote* | can | we | stinger net |  |  |  | anywhere *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **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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They stop people swimming too far out to sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die:t11:o1:1
# text = They stop people swimming too far out to sea
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | They | people |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality people=Eventuality |
| 2 | **swim** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  | sea |  | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to sea=Destination |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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They catch crabs for dinner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die:t11:o2:1
# text = They catch crabs for dinner
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	crabs	crab	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | present | They | crabs |  |  |  | for dinner | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent crab=Theme for dinner=Beneficiary |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They are only there for decoration and photos

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die:t11:o3:1
# text = They are only there for decoration and photos
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	decoration	decoration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	photos	photo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | They |  |  |  |  | for decoration and photos; there *property* | tree rules |

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

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The nets keep box jellyfish away from swimmers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die:t11:o4:1
# text = The nets keep box jellyfish away from swimmers
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	swimmers	swimmer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep away** | present | the nets | box jellyfish |  | swimmers |  | away *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer jellyfish=Beneficiary from swimmer=Eventuality |

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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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