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# Test 1 · ★★ · The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark a…

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«got a unicorn horn in grandpa's attic, worth millions» What is it most likely?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** horn · **What happens:** get, be · **To what, where:** unicorn horn, attic worth millions

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 169 «The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark and the unicorn's tooth» 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/169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth:t1:1
# text = «got a unicorn horn in grandpa's attic, worth millions» What is it most likely?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	unicorn	unicorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
7	grandpa	grandpa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	attic	attic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
14	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	obj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	18	advmod	_	_
18	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | past |  | a unicorn horn |  | grandpa's attic worth millions |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent horn=Beneficiary what=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | horn |  |  |  |  | likely *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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A narwhal tusk, which is really a whale's tooth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth:t1:o1:1
# text = A narwhal tusk, which is really a whale's tooth
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	narwhal	narwhal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tusk	tusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
7	really	really	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a narwhal tusk and a whale's tooth | a whale's tooth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A walrus whisker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth:t1:o2:1
# text = A walrus whisker
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	walrus	walrus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	whisker	whisker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A real unicorn's horn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth:t1:o3:1
# text = A real unicorn's horn
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	unicorn	unicorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A goat's horn painted white

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth:t1:o4:1
# text = A goat's horn painted white
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	painted	paint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | past | a goat's horn |  |  |  |  | white *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=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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