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description: A farmer counts injuries on his farm this year. Which is most likely to have hurt someone? Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 166 «Australia's venomous animals and why few people die» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 9 · ★★ · Australia's venomous animals and why few people die

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A farmer counts injuries on his farm this year. Which is most likely to have hurt someone?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** farmer · **What happens:** count, be, hurt · **To what, where:** injuries, farm, someone

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A farmer counts injuries on his farm this year.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die:t9:1
# text = A farmer counts injuries on his farm this year.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	counts	count	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	injuries	injury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | present | a farmer | injuries |  | farmer's farm | year |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injury=Theme |

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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:* Which is most likely to have hurt someone?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die:t9:2
# text = Which is most likely to have hurt someone?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	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	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
7	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	xcomp	_	_
8	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	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 |
| 2 | **hurt** | to-infinitive · perfect |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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An inland taipan

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die:t9:o1:1
# text = An inland taipan
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	inland	inland	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	taipan	taipan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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A horse or a cow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die:t9:o2:1
# text = A horse or a cow
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A blue-ringed octopus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die:t9:o3:1
# text = A blue-ringed octopus
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	ringed	ring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	octopus	octopus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ring** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A box jellyfish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die:t9:o4:1
# text = A box jellyfish
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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